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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not "85". Respect.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Better 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 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not 1970?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago

No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!

[–] atx_aquarian 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Epoch comeback!

[–] kelseybcool 12 points 10 months ago

[–] Pacmanlives 12 points 10 months ago

ArsTechina is not what it once was sadly. Still one of the better news sites but that would have been something you would have seen 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.