Ars TechnicaInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
Tom Hannen@arstechnica "The 64-bit value for the fraction is enough to resolve the amount of time it takes a photon to pass an electron at the speed of light. The 64-bit second value is enough to provide unambiguous time representation until the universe goes dim.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
