Blxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1936arrow-down17 cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.socialtechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1929arrow-down1external-linkInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comBlxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square45fedilink cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.socialtechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up182arrow-down1·8 months 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-up86·8 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-squarePacmanlives@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoArsTechina 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
minus-square1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months 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.
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’.