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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] getting the time

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:08:16 -0800
On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:06 PM, philippe alarcon wrote:

>    { &hf_time,
>    { "Date & time       ", "melodhy.time",
>       FT_STRING, BASE_NONE, NULL, 0x0, "", HFILL }},

Why make it a string, rather than an FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME?