Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85Blxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.world – 886 points – 9 months agoarstechnica.com52Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsWtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not "85". Respect.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.Not 1970?No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!Epoch comeback!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 agoAnd to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.
Wtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not "85". Respect.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.Not 1970?No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!Epoch comeback!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 agoAnd to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.
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.Not 1970?No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!Epoch comeback!
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
Wtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not "85". Respect.
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.
Not 1970?
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
Epoch comeback!
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
And to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.