Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    When you’re dealing with a bunch of systems that communicate with each other, especially database clusters, having the time synchronized is essential. Without his work the sort of massive clusters of systems we use - deliberately or second-hand - would not be possible. He’s as much a contributor to the modern web as Tim Berners-Lee.

    RIP Time Lord

    • TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      It’ll only affect 32bit systems with ancient operating systems storing dates in epoch time.

      Not a small number. But nowhere remotely near what Y2K could have been.

      Hopefully by the time we need to account for a 64bit rollover, I’ll be comfortably retired. But by that time, proton decay may be a more worrisome problem.