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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Imgonnatrythis 200 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not "85". Respect.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not 1970?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago

No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Epoch comeback!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.