Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Time codes for text2pcap?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 13:48:45 -0800
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:42:57PM -0000, Gordon McKinney wrote:
> Is it easy for someone to add the timecodes to the text2pcap program

Probably not.

For one thing, there's no single format for date/time stamps used in all
textual dumps of packet data, so you'd either have to add heuristics or
add explicit directives telling text2pcap what the format of the
date/time stamp is.  (Note that "format" would include an indication of
the order in which the year, month, and day appear; this suggests that
heuristics alone couldn't do the job - what day is 12/06/2001?  In many
places, it's June 12th; in some other places, it's December 6.)