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minus-square@tychosmoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish92•1 year 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.
minus-square@tychosmoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish68•1 year agoNo. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
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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.
Not 1970?
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
Epoch comeback!