tychosmoose@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85English
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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.
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!