Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Patch adding option to display time as seconds(and fractions) since epoch

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> As a Windows user I don't know what an "epoch time" is.

Not all Unix users know what it is, either.

> Would it be
> better to use "Seconds Since Unix Epoch" or even better "Seconds Since
> 1.1.1970"?

Or "since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT", to use something closer to the ISO  
standard, and to indicate the time as well as the date of the epoch.