From the course: Wireshark: Network Troubleshooting

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Displaying time

Displaying time

- [Instructor] The concept of accurate time on a network is very important. CIS Log audits and logs events which you can use to track problems and troubleshoot issues. In addition, some protocols such as curb rows require synchronized time on the network. Periodically I check my wall clock with a more official source. I'm here at this website, time.gov. And we can take a look over here and it says your clock is off by 1.017 seconds. So now I'm in Wireshark and let's take a look at how we can view time. We'll go to View and a significant sub-menu choice deals with the time display. And I'll go here and we'll just expand this, the time display format. Now in the first couple you can put it in any number of different ways. Date and time of day, year, day of year, and time of day, time of day, and here's one I probably would never use, seconds since January 1st, 1970. Most commonly you'll probably use one of these…

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