[Holger Hiort <hhiort.ml@xxxxxxx>]

Reference:  "Clyde Hoadley" <hoadleyc@xxxxxxxx>  on  Tue, 20 Mar 2001
19:57:58 -0700:

> I just installed winpcap v2.1 on Windows 98 for use with Ethereal 0.8.16
> It has corrected the problem of "date and time of day" being displayed
> incorrectly.  "date and time of day" now display correctly.

For a few days, all was 'at sync' here (WIN98 SE). But while our local
clock just switched from 02:00 to 03:00 with the beginning of DST,
Ethereal as well as Windump leapt from 02:00 to 04:00. This apparently
is a Windows issue, not WinPcap's.

OTOH, with a (properly syntaxed) environment variable TZ in
autoexec.bat the WinPcap-dependent applications show correct
timestamps. The syntax should be: STDoffsetDST[offset], where STD is
the name of one's timezone (MET in my, CST in Clyde's case), offset is
the number of hours to add to get UTC (-1 here, +6 in Central Standard
Time) and DST may be added without an offset, asssuming it's almost
always one hour ahead of standard time.

So my autoexec.bat now contains the following line:

set TZ=MET-1DST 

and my world is at sync again.

Regards, hh.