Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Time Display issues opening traces
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:12:06 -0700
On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Chris Alton wrote:

> Thanks a lot for that explanation Guy that gives me everything I needed.  I figured that was probably the case but I swore I remembered Wireshark (or Ethereal) not doing that in the past but I missed that it seems :).
> 
> I guess I'll have to wait for pcap-ng to become more prevalent before I'll get my wish.

You'll need for pcap-ng to become more prevalent *and* for some standard for the time zone indication in the file.  (My personal preference is for an Olson-style time zone name, which might require Wireshark to drag the Olson database along - and might also require some API improvements to let it more easily use time zones other than the local time zone to convert times.)