Guy

I just confirmed that this is UTC time.
Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks,
Brian


Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Brian Oleksa wrote:
>
>   
>> I forgot to add the format of the time stamp that I am trying to get.
>>
>> ms since the epoch (jan 1, 1970) as a 8 byte network byte order integer
>>
>> Is there built in functions that can be used..??
>>     
>
> Do you mean that you have a protocol that has an 8-byte network-byte-order 
> integer whose value is a count of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 
> 1970?
>
> The function to get the value would be tvb_get_ntoh64(), but that just gives 
> you a guint64 count of milliseconds.
>
> If you want to add that to the protocol tree as an FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME, that 
> requires more work.
>
> First - is that midnight, January 1, 1970, UTC, or midnight, January 1, 1970 
> *local* time?  If it's local time, that's a bit more work; I'll assume it's 
> UTC here.
>
> Values for FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME fields are nstime_t's; those are structures with 
> a "secs" and "nsecs" field.  If you have a 64-bit milliseconds since the 
> Epoch, and you want to convert it to an nstime_t for use with an 
> FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME field, you'd do
>
>       guint64 msecs_since_the_epoch;
>       nstime_t t;
>
>               ...
>
>       t.secs = msecs_since_the_epoch/1000;
>       t.nsecs = (msecs_since_the_epoch%1000)*1000000; /* milliseconds to 
> nanoseconds */
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