Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12402] format DIS header timestamp mm:ss.nnnnnn
Comment # 7
on bug 12402
from alan partis
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #4)
> OK, the more precise version of
>
> The DIS dissector, prior to v2.0 updates ...
>
> is
>
> The DIS dissector, prior to v1.12 updates ...
>
> The change was made in the 1.12 release, not the 2.0 release
Yes, greater accuracy is a good thing. It would also be accurate to say that
I've received more complaints about the behavior and accuracy of the timestamp
display from v1.12 forward than v1.11.* back. After the initial big changes in
the DIS dissector, the timestamp tended to display either 0.000000000 or
0.000000001 for any given timestamp value. This was then 'fixed' but only
displayed with millisecond accuracy in spite of the spec calling for
microseconds.
That has already been resolved, with the only remaining piece to restore the
display format to mm:ss.nnnnnn.
> So the question is whether the right way to handle this is 1), 2), or 3).
> (The correct way involves doing the formatting in the Wireshark core; the
> question is in what fashion to allow relative time fields to be formatted as
> something other than seconds and fractions of a second.)
Agreed. If I read you correctly, I'd choose door #1.
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