arstechnica,
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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Wen,
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nonesuch_user,

@arstechnica and now his clock is stopped. Requiescat in pace.

tomhannen,
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@arstechnica "The 64-bit value for the fraction is enough to resolve the amount of time it takes a photon to pass an electron at the speed of light. The 64-bit second value is enough to provide unambiguous time representation until the universe goes dim.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

Frank_Engelhard,
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@arstechnica When you use abbreviations in your announcements, like you and other techies do, you inhibit lay people like me from opening your messages.

CodingThunder,
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@arstechnica Mad respect for this guy!

zvhxxl,
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@arstechnica Condeolances to his kins.

margot_is_trying,
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@arstechnica rest in peace man

franciswashere,
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franciswashere,
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Dave Mills, inventor of the NPT protocol.

crustyPauper,
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@arstechnica sorry fake news, wiki search seemed to need his middle name initial, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

fubaroque,
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@arstechnica Actually it doesn’t keep time, it synchronizes time. 🤭

deegeese,

@arstechnica Dave Mills is finally late, at the age of 85.

hyc,
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@deegeese @arstechnica he's not gone, he's just moved to a higher stratum

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