Hi,

>        2) does, but "helpfully" converts the time to local time (in which
> case, whoever decided to be "helpful" needs to be hit with said sock).

I found that tcpdump with -tttt converts to local time, but tcpdump
-tt report GMT.

>
> However, even with standard pcap files, which have GMT time stamps, one
> might want to be able to display the time stamps in the time zone in which
> the capture was done rather than in the time zone in which it's being read;
> that's what the original poster wanted.

Exactly.

>Storing time zone information in
> the file, rather than getting it out of band (e.g., asking whoever sent you
> the file where they captured it) isn't a requirement, but it could be a
> convenience.

Would be convenient indeed.

Cheers,
Andrej
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