Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
tychosmoose@lemm.ee 9 months agoBetter to represent it as a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900. It’s how he would have wanted it.
geogle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not 1970?
tychosmoose@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Epoch comeback!
kelseybcool@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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