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

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

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