[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Javier Acuña wrote:

> I'm wondering if we could add a general preferences dialog for date
> formats, which would apply to all dissectors. (that is if Ethereal
> doesn't have one yet, at leat I coulnd't fine one.)
>
> It would be better for all dissector to show date strings the same
> way, be it european (dd/mm/yyyy) or american (mm/dd/yyyy).

...or ISO 8601-style (yyyy-mm-dd).  (I think a number of Asian countries 
use year-month-day order.)

> A centralized preference (perhaps in UI preferences) for this would be excellent.

A centralized set of routines, which all dissectors used, would be a 
prerequisite. :-)  We do have a number of routines, and they should 
probably use the same format, at least for binary dates.

On many systems there already is a date format preference, or something 
that amounts to it.  Perhaps just using %x in strftime() is the right 
answer, as that'd default to the system date representation.