https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3368
--- Comment #7 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-10-08 07:34:24 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> RFC 3550 says:
> "
> Wallclock time (absolute date and time) is represented using the
> timestamp format of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), which is in
> seconds relative to 0h UTC on 1 January 1900 [4].
> "
>
> While the 'normal' time conversion routines use 1-1-1970 as epoch. That's a
> difference of 70 years, which results in... 2208988800UL seconds.
> You cannot assume the sample capture has the correct timestamp on it.
The link to http://www.epochconverter.com/ was provided by LeRoy within the
Word document posted, and so I mistakenly inferred that it was an NTP Epoch
converter, but you're right; it's a Unix Epoch converter.
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