It's been a while since there was a golf, so I thought I would post a hole.

Running tcpdump on a *nix box will give you the output something akin to: 

23:02:57.121780 receiveServer.yourDomain.com.ssh > targetServer.yourDo
+main.com.1060: P 2193476388:2193476432(44) ack 3461777800 win 16060 (
+DF) [tos 0x10]
23:02:57.121937 targetServer.yourDomain.com.1060 > receiveServer.yourD
+omain.com.ssh: . ack 44 win 16328 (DF)
23:02:57.123952 receiveServer.yourDomain.com.2113 > dns.yourDomain.com
+.domain: 56467+ (45)
23:02:57.124389 dns.yourDomain.com.domain > receiveServer.yourDomain.c
+om.2113: 56467* 1/3/3 (189)
23:02:57.124931 receiveServer.yourDomain.com.2113 > dns.yourDomain.com
+.domain: 56468+ (44)
23:02:57.125371 dns.yourDomain.com.domain > receiveServer.yourDomain.c
+om.2113: 56468* 1/3/3 (189)
23:02:57.125953 receiveServer.yourDomain.com.ssh > targetServer.yourDo
+main.com.1060: P 44:336(292) ack 1 win 16060 (DF) [tos 0x10]
23:02:57.126299 receiveServer.yourDomain.com.2113 > dns.yourDomain.com
+.domain: 56469+ (41)
23:02:57.126818 dns.yourDomain.com.domain > receiveServer.yourDomain.c
+om.2113: 56469* 1/4/4 (209)
23:02:57.127455 receiveServer.yourDomain.com.ssh > targetServer.yourDo
+main.com.1060: P 336:628(292) ack 1 win 16060 (DF) [tos 0x10]

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Just recently, I helped a person who's assignment for a class was to analyze this output and deduce how long it took to load a site. That is, you took the last time stamp and subtracted the first time stamp from it (this was done while connecting via http to a website).

So, I helped the person do it in Perl; then for my own amusement, I golfed it. You can assume (as I did) that the hours and minutes would stay the same lest you run into crazy time to integer conversion issues. Running it against the output posted above should give you .00567.

Here's what I came up with:

Stroke #1: 
                          123456789          2         3         4    
+     5         6     
% cat data.output | perl -ne'undef$/;/.{6}(.{9}).*[\d|:]{6}([\d|\.]{9}
+)(?!\n)/s,print$2-$1'

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Stroke #2: 
                          123456789          2         3         4    
+     5         6     
% cat data.output | perl -n0e'/.{6}(.{9}).*[\d|:]{6}([\d|\.]{9})(?!\n)
+/s,print$2-$1.'

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Happy Golfin',
Jeremy

P.S. This is my first golf.

In reply to (Golf) Analyzing Time From tcpdump Output by enoch

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