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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] UTC time display

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:49:36 -0500

Yes, I do that regularly on UNIX. It'd be nice to have the feature on Windows too.

Andreas Fink wrote:
Wouldn't the folowing do?

TZ=UTC
export TZ
wireshark

(of course on windows this wouldnt work...)

On 28.02.2008, at 13:16, John McHugh wrote:

I work with capture files containing data collected at locations all
over the world.  The user community for this data is likewise all over
the world and we all use UTC time to ensure that we are talking about
the same events.

Including an option to cause Wireshark to display in UTC rather than
local would be a significant benefit to me and this community.  I
suspect that it is as simple as setting a preference and inserting a
switch between localtime() and gmtime() (or their equivalents) in
whatever code is used to convert the timestamps to calendar format.

John McHugh
Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Security
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada