It’s a protocol named NTP. If you want to say “the ___ protocol”, you can say “the network time protocol” or “the NTP protocol”. Both are correct, even if the latter is technically redundant. You would sound really weird if you insisted on saying “the NTP”. Let’s not bring the worst parts of reddit to the fediverse. Needlessly pedantic is something we can move beyond.
What does the p stand for? Surely not protocol that is in the title.
It’s a protocol named NTP. If you want to say “the ___ protocol”, you can say “the network time protocol” or “the NTP protocol”. Both are correct, even if the latter is technically redundant. You would sound really weird if you insisted on saying “the NTP”. Let’s not bring the worst parts of reddit to the fediverse. Needlessly pedantic is something we can move beyond.
Thank you!
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I give you PIN number and ATM machine
nobody says those that way in real life. I only hear people say “I went to the ATM” “I forgot my PIN”
Only people who no longer pin stuff to a pin board would say just pin for a PIN number… and if those are already majority, then RIP Pinterest.
PIN number is pretty ubiquitous
“LED diode”
No, that’s him. Arguably the father of modern computer time.
I expected a longer beard.
Network Time Protocol