tychosmoose@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85English
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6 months agoNo. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
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.
In terms of language you are correct. But in terms of SI usage it seems to me OP is expressing it correctly. The SI unit prefixes have a name, a symbol and a multiplier. The prefix is a concept that encompasses all three of those attributes. So “kilo” is one way of identifying the 10^3 unit prefix, but the name kilo is not the prefix itself. It’s just the name we use to refer to it. And the symbol k in km is certainly the unit prefix portion of that unit of measure.
Mildly what now?