Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug-Report: wiretap, timestamps and timezone

[Marco van den Bovenkamp <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rolf Fiedler wrote:

> Greenwich time, since daylight saving time is in effect. But ethereal
> does not care about "proper" timezone handling. This is a serious problem
> for my application. I can reproduce the bug in both Windows and Linux.
> My timestamps are GMT and my local machines are two hours off due to 
> daylight saving, but ethereal is only considering the 1 hour that I live east
> of Greenwich.

I can't duplicate that. Version 0.10.3 shows the correct time, on Linux 
at least. I just captured a few packets, and 'tcpdump -tttt -r' showed 
UTC timestamps, as it should, and Ethereal showed the correct local time 
(CEST, 2 hours ahead of UTC).

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		Regards,

			Marco.