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