Blxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comBlxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoWtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not “85”. Respect.
minus-squaretychosmoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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.
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.