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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Time references

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:28:44 -0400


John McHugh wrote:
I am working with network data from various sources, captured at various locations. Most of the tools I use allow (or require) me to display the times as UTC, allowing easy comparisons as well as discussions with colleagues who are working in other time zones.

Why is it not possible to set the time of day display in wireshark to display in UTC in addition to (or instead of) displaying in the local time zone (which is completely irrelevant to the analysis). Providing this facility would greatly simplify portable analysis of network data and should be trivial as parallel display routines for local and UTC display are readily available. I have not examined the source carefully, but suspect that the addition of UTC display should be fairly simple.

There's an enhancement open to implement that:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2629