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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make ICMP timestamps human readable

From: "ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:45:27 +0000
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On 6/6/06, Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Attached is a small patch to make the dissection of ICMP timestamp
requests and replies human readable.  Currently, Ethereal displays the
raw values from the packet of milliseconds since midnight UTC, for
example: 78176394.  This patch changes the display of milliseconds to a
human readable string, for example: "21 hours, 35 minutes, 48.12 seconds
since midnight UTC".

It can be tested with "ping -M time <hostname>" on FreeBSD, "ping -T
tsonly <hostname>" on Linux, or a time synchronization program such as
Tardis 2000 for Windows with the ICMP Timestamp setting.


Steve