Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85Blxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.world – 886 points – 10 months agoarstechnica.com52Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentBetter 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!
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!
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!