Subject: Re: tcpdump and time
To: Jan Danielsson <jan.danielsson@gmail.com>
From: Gilbert Fernandes <gilbert.fernandes@spamcop.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/30/2006 22:06:27
>   I have written a tool for monitoring my firewall (pf).

pf already has a tool for monitoring :)

Is your tool improving it ?

> to be offset by (exactly) minus an hour. Why is this?

It records time as UTC it seems, thus -0100.
The man page talks about the timestamp but doesn't say
the output will be converted to UTC so perhaps tcpdump
does not take in consideration /etc/localtime

> I live in Sweden, GMT+1 (in case it is relevant). NetBSD/i386
> 3.0.

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