Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] UTC time display

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:19:50 +0100

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:50:23PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:16:29AM -0400, John McHugh wrote:
> 
> > Including an option to cause Wireshark to display in UTC rather than 
> > local would be a significant benefit to me and this community.  I 
> > suspect that it is as simple as setting a preference and inserting a 
> > switch between localtime() and gmtime() (or their equivalents) in 
> > whatever code is used to convert the timestamps to calendar format.
> 
> Would you mind opening a bug report at http://bugs.wireshark.org 
> requesting this (and mark it as an enhancement request) so we don't 
> forget it?
> 
> My initial thoughts are that the option could be placed in the View - 
> Time Display Format menu, either at the top with a separator bar below 
> it saying Local Time or UTC Time.  Or add two more Date and Time of Day 
> and Time of Day options with (UTC) at the end.  What does everyone think?

Since the Absolute time is also displayed in the "frame" details, I
would prefer to have it as a seperate option in the "View | Time Display
format" menu. How'bout a selection below the precision where you can
select the following:

* Use Local Timezone
  Use UTC Timezone
  Use specific Timezone -> GMT-12 (example cities)
			   GMT-11 (example cities)
			   ...
			   GMT+11 (example cities)
			   GMT+12 (example cities)

I'm not sure whether that sort of selection (with a submenu) is
possible within GTK in this context though...

Cheers,
    Sake