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-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.
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.