Time-Stamp Format and Interpretation

The start-time and end-time are timestamps with one-second resolution. They are specified in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The format is four digits for the year, followed by two digits for each month, day, hour, minute, and second, as follows:

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

The timestamps are in GMT to ensure that they will sort in proper order even across a daylight savings 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 point whenever you manipulate these files with standard file commands rather than with the auditreduce command.