Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [Proposed Patch] netxray.c: display frame time reflecting TZ in capture file

["Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Jaap Keuter wrote

> Two things:
> - Timezone are not only 1 hour apart, see
> http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
> - How do we convey to the user that the time presented is the local time
> or capture time?


Good points:

1. I should note that the Windows sniffer appears to store TZ in hours so it
   presumably doesn't handle the non-hour cases either.
   (I wonder what would be stored as the TZ for a sniffer capture taken
   in the Newfoundland TZ).

2. I hadn't thought about the issue of displaying capture time vs local time. 
   Currently all frame times display as local time (whether reading from a
   pcap file or a sniffer file or ...) thus displaying capture time just 
   for certain sniffer captures without telling the user what is being
   displayed is not a good idea.

   Trying to somehow convey which time is being displayed is a bigger issue.


So: suggested patch withdrawn.....

Bill Meier