Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] BASE_CUSTOM and 64-bit values

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:22 PM, David Arnold <davida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm working on a dissector for a protocol that encodes a timestamp as a 64-bit number of nanoseconds since midnight.

Is that "midnight on a particular date", where the date appears in the packet along with the time-of-day, or is it "midnight since some implicit day" (e.g., "today") or "midnight since some date specified in some other packet"?