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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 195 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 90 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago
[-] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago

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

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