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High Resolution Time Level 2 Is Now a Web Standard
High Resolution Time Level 2 joined the list of web standards. The new standard updates and replaces the previous High Resolution Time Level Level 1 standard. Level 2 strengthens the reliability and precision of performance monitoring, animations, audio cues, and synchronization between browsing contexts.
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CloudFlare Releases Open Source Implementation of Network Time Security Protocol
CloudFlare announced the first major release of their implementation of the Network Time Security (NTS) protocol. This builds on their previous release of time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both Network Time Protocol (NTP) and NTS.
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Cloudflare Releases Free Time Service That Supports NTP and NTS
Cloudflare released time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both NTP (Network Time Protocol) and the emerging NTS (Network Time Security). NTP is an Internet protocol for synchronizing time between remote computer systems. Cloudflare’s new service provides NTP services over their anycast network of over 180 locations worldwide.
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Date and Time Formatting in Java 9 Will Get Closer to Unicode Locale Standards
Several parsing and formatting changes have been incorporated to bring the functionality closer to Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). These changes have been supervised by Stephen Colebourne, creator of the popular library JodaTime, precursor of the new java.time component in Java 8. Abiding by the Unicode standard will provide better interoperability with other non-Java systems.
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Noda Time Gets Faster, Adds Persian and Hebrew Calendar Support
Noda Time v 1.3 has been released with several new features such as support for Persian and Hebrew Calendars, performance improvements for parsing and formatting and several API additions.
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Java Currency and Money Standard Forges Ahead
The Java standard for Currency and Money (JSR 354) currently under development reached another important milestone this May with the publication of a second Public Review draft. InfoQ spoke to Anatole Tresch of Credit Suisse who is leading the standardisation effort.