Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] timestamp resolution

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:35:49 -0800
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:06:55PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On the text2pcap timestamp bug, my colleague and I agreed that
> having the year default to 1970 is probably the best bet.
> When seen in the decode view, it's obviously wrong; the
> current time/date (at conversion time) may not be obviously
> wrong later. So here's the patch as I posted it last night.

I've checked that in, with additional initializations to set the date to
the Epoch, in case there are other fields not set.