Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Time Display issues opening traces

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

Chris Alton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to know if there was any way to prevent Wireshark from 
> displaying the trace time in local time but the actual time the trace 
> was taken. This makes analyzing traces from different time zones a 
> complete pain. If I have logs from somebody that are in their time zone 
> but the trace is in mine it makes it a LOT harder to find things since I 
> have to mentally compensate for this time zone change.

If you're on a UNIX-like system, it's quite easy to change the timezone 
Wireshark uses.  Just run Wireshark like, for example:

TZ=GMT wireshark

If you're on Windows then there is no solution currently.  But there is 
an enhancement request for such functionality, see:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2629