Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Set capture to TZ blah?
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:16:07 -0700
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.)