A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5 (Nate Hopper/New Yorker)

Nate Hopper / New Yorker:
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5  —  An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks.  Who will keep it running?  —  In 1977, David Mills …