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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Set capture to TZ blah?

From: Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:47:18 +0100
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:16:07AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Mar 14, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > When I have captures and logs that do not match the timezone, I use the
> > TZ environment variable to read the captures in the timezone of the
> > logs, like:
> > 
> >    $ TZ=America/New_York tshark -r /path/to/capture.pcap.gz ....
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >    $ TZ=America/New_York wireshark /path/to/capture.pcap.gz
> 
> That would work on systems using the IANA tz database (and using the new tz naming scheme; I'm not sure whether Solaris does), so it'd work on, at minimum, most if not all Linux distributions, *BSD, and OS X.
> 
> However, it doesn't work on, for example, Windows, which doesn't use the IANA tz database.
> 
> (That's why I suggested that we might want to incorporate the tz database in Wireshark.)

Oh, yes indeed. Some people might still run an operating system that
does not support that...

Thanks,
Niels