Blxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1998arrow-down16 cross-posted to: programming@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squaretychosmoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up92·10 months agoBetter 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.
minus-squaretychosmoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68·10 months agoNo. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
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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!