Note that the time stamp is printed only when reading an existing

capture file, not when printing packet summaries as packets are
captured.

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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod.template b/doc/tethereal.pod.template
index 34847b7cf5..5cb93de1a0 100644
--- a/doc/tethereal.pod.template
+++ b/doc/tethereal.pod.template
@@ -47,12 +47,13 @@ of the packets it captures or reads; otherwise, it writes those packets
 to the file specified by that flag.
 
 When printing a decoded form of packets, B<Tethereal> prints, by
-default, a summary line giving a time stamp for the packet, the source
-and destination address for the packet, the top-level protocol for the
-packet that B<Tethereal> understands, and a summary of the packet's
-contents for that protocol.  If the B<-V> flag is specified, it prints
-intead a protocol tree, showing all the fields of all protocols in the
-packet.
+default, a summary line giving a time stamp for the packet if it's
+reading a capture file (but not if it's printing packets as it captures
+them), the source and destination address for the packet, the top-level
+protocol for the packet that B<Tethereal> understands, and a summary of
+the packet's contents for that protocol.  If the B<-V> flag is
+specified, it prints intead a protocol tree, showing all the fields of
+all protocols in the packet.
 
 When writing packets to a file, B<Tethereal>, by default, writes the
 file in B<libpcap> format, and writes all of the packets it sees to the