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tychosmoose , to Technology in Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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

tychosmoose , to Technology in Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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.

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