| This matches if the packet arrival time/date is within a given range. All |
| options are optional, but are ANDed when specified. All times are interpreted |
| as UTC by default. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-datestart\fP \fIYYYY\fP[\fB\-\fP\fIMM\fP[\fB\-\fP\fIDD\fP[\fBT\fP\fIhh\fP[\fB:\fP\fImm\fP[\fB:\fP\fIss\fP]]]]] |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-datestop\fP \fIYYYY\fP[\fB\-\fP\fIMM\fP[\fB\-\fP\fIDD\fP[\fBT\fP\fIhh\fP[\fB:\fP\fImm\fP[\fB:\fP\fIss\fP]]]]] |
| Only match during the given time, which must be in ISO 8601 "T" notation. |
| The possible time range is 1970-01-01T00:00:00 to 2038-01-19T04:17:07. |
| .IP |
| If \-\-datestart or \-\-datestop are not specified, it will default to 1970-01-01 |
| and 2038-01-19, respectively. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-timestart\fP \fIhh\fP\fB:\fP\fImm\fP[\fB:\fP\fIss\fP] |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-timestop\fP \fIhh\fP\fB:\fP\fImm\fP[\fB:\fP\fIss\fP] |
| Only match during the given daytime. The possible time range is 00:00:00 to |
| 23:59:59. Leading zeroes are allowed (e.g. "06:03") and correctly interpreted |
| as base-10. |
| .TP |
| [\fB!\fP] \fB\-\-monthdays\fP \fIday\fP[\fB,\fP\fIday\fP...] |
| Only match on the given days of the month. Possible values are \fB1\fP |
| to \fB31\fP. Note that specifying \fB31\fP will of course not match |
| on months which do not have a 31st day; the same goes for 28- or 29-day |
| February. |
| .TP |
| [\fB!\fP] \fB\-\-weekdays\fP \fIday\fP[\fB,\fP\fIday\fP...] |
| Only match on the given weekdays. Possible values are \fBMon\fP, \fBTue\fP, |
| \fBWed\fP, \fBThu\fP, \fBFri\fP, \fBSat\fP, \fBSun\fP, or values from \fB1\fP |
| to \fB7\fP, respectively. You may also use two-character variants (\fBMo\fP, |
| \fBTu\fP, etc.). |
| .TP |
| \fB\-\-kerneltz\fP |
| Use the kernel timezone instead of UTC to determine whether a packet meets the |
| time regulations. |
| .PP |
| About kernel timezones: Linux keeps the system time in UTC, and always does so. |
| On boot, system time is initialized from a referential time source. Where this |
| time source has no timezone information, such as the x86 CMOS RTC, UTC will be |
| assumed. If the time source is however not in UTC, userspace should provide the |
| correct system time and timezone to the kernel once it has the information. |
| .PP |
| Local time is a feature on top of the (timezone independent) system time. Each |
| process has its own idea of local time, specified via the TZ environment |
| variable. The kernel also has its own timezone offset variable. The TZ |
| userspace environment variable specifies how the UTC-based system time is |
| displayed, e.g. when you run date(1), or what you see on your desktop clock. |
| The TZ string may resolve to different offsets at different dates, which is |
| what enables the automatic time-jumping in userspace. when DST changes. The |
| kernel's timezone offset variable is used when it has to convert between |
| non-UTC sources, such as FAT filesystems, to UTC (since the latter is what the |
| rest of the system uses). |
| .PP |
| The caveat with the kernel timezone is that Linux distributions may ignore to |
| set the kernel timezone, and instead only set the system time. Even if a |
| particular distribution does set the timezone at boot, it is usually does not |
| keep the kernel timezone offset - which is what changes on DST - up to date. |
| ntpd will not touch the kernel timezone, so running it will not resolve the |
| issue. As such, one may encounter a timezone that is always +0000, or one that |
| is wrong half of the time of the year. As such, \fBusing \-\-kerneltz is highly |
| discouraged.\fP |
| .PP |
| EXAMPLES. To match on weekends, use: |
| .IP |
| \-m time \-\-weekdays Sa,Su |
| .PP |
| Or, to match (once) on a national holiday block: |
| .IP |
| \-m time \-\-datestart 2007\-12\-24 \-\-datestop 2007\-12\-27 |
| .PP |
| Since the stop time is actually inclusive, you would need the following stop |
| time to not match the first second of the new day: |
| .IP |
| \-m time \-\-datestart 2007\-01\-01T17:00 \-\-datestop 2007\-01\-01T23:59:59 |
| .PP |
| During lunch hour: |
| .IP |
| \-m time \-\-timestart 12:30 \-\-timestop 13:30 |
| .PP |
| The fourth Friday in the month: |
| .IP |
| \-m time \-\-weekdays Fr \-\-monthdays 22,23,24,25,26,27,28 |
| .PP |
| (Note that this exploits a certain mathematical property. It is not possible to |
| say "fourth Thursday OR fourth Friday" in one rule. It is possible with |
| multiple rules, though.) |