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26/04/2013 3:02 pm
I need to decode a timestamp in GigaTribe.
GigaTribe V3 is coded using the Qt library and the timestamps are QDateTime.
I can locate the relevant bytes in the file but am having trouble decoding it.
I know that IEF and some other tools decode GigaTribe chat along with the timestamp, however, I need to verify this timestamp. The same timestamp appears in other locations within the GigaTribe application that aren't decoded by the tools.
26/04/2013 6:00 pm
its julian date for the first 4 bytes and milliseconds to midnight for the second 4
hit me up via PM if you want more details on the giga chat structures
27/04/2013 1:16 am
I spent 4 hours trying to reverse engineer one of those before learning about julian dates. The amount of swearing about astronomers in my office….