Guess it was … his time.
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Submitted 9 months ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1997331
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chirospasm@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hey! Knock off the puns before I clock ya!
kautau@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Now wait a minute, no need to be hasty
JustUseMint@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Network time protocol protocol
isgleas@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Along the DNS system, one of the most used ones in the whole international internet network
ApeNo1@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Time as experienced throughout the universe stops abruptly as the true source of time sends its first and last kiss of death deny message back to the universe.
What a legacy to leave behind.
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 9 months ago
They coulda picked a better picture. Institutional cinderblock hallway, prominent fire extinguisher, florescent lighting, etc.
athos77@kbin.social 9 months ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The best people in history are the ones who don’t want to stop working just to get their picture taken.
One of my favorite pictures of a person ever is Albert Einstein just working at his desk, oblivious to everything around him.
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm sure better pictures of him exist
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
This is a shame. One of my first proper programming projects was a timesync client for the Amiga, back in the 1990s. It used SNTP (the simpler version of NTP), as everybody else seemed to be using other protocols (I think there’s one called time which just returns the current time in text form). I was immensely proud of it, it’s called FACTS if you want to look it up.
Anyway, David Mills is a bit of a hero of mine because that protocol inspired me to create some software, and probably made me even more obsessed with accurate time.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 9 months ago
Error on your link
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Thanks for the warning! The picture is visible only on db0 for some reason…
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The Architect
shalafi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Man, I so love NTP. Y’all younglings have no idea what it was like in the day.
Us kids would literally “synchronize watches”, like in the old war movies. We’d call the free “time and temperature” number to sync up. No one’s clocks matched exactly. Now we just take it for granted.
Every device in my house is within 1-second of every other. LOL, I meet with people all over the globe on Zoom, and we’re all on time. To the second.
NTP is so critical for the information age, I can’t overstate it. If you’re not a programmer or other such nerd, it’s hard to get your head around how complex the NTP protocol is. Yet it works wonderfully! Much, much respect.
ApeNo1@lemm.ee 9 months ago
In Australia there was a toll free number you could dial that was a recorded person reading out the time 24/7. That voice is forever etched in my mind.
“At the third stroke, it will be 7:35 and 15 seconds" beep, beep, beep
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Same in the UK, the speaking clock on (it had various numbers over the years but the most memorable was) 123.
hikaru755@feddit.de 9 months ago
Meanwhile, my new oven’s clock drifts by over a minute in just a few days after setting it to the correct time, smh
xpinchx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol I was very much doing the same as a kid, but this comment read like an old timer telling of an age long ago. I legit typed out “that was interesting man, thanks for sharing”.
Not sure wether to laugh or cry because I’m so old 😂