Time-Stamp Format and Interpretation

The start-time and finish-time are time stamps with one-second resolution; they are specified in Greenwich mean time. The format is four digits for the year, followed by two for each month, day, hour, minute, and second, as shown here: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

The time stamps are in GMT to ensure that they will sort in proper order even across a daylight saving time boundary. Because they are in GMT, the date and hour must be translated to the current time zone to be meaningful; beware of this whenever manipulating these files with standard file commands rather than with auditreduce.