The clock was about timestamps.
I can do a LOT with this in a very short time. My text editor is ancient but still extremely full featured. It has full support for column blocking. When I started the "alternative Q graphic" that I was posting in here, I foresaw the need to do a lot of analysis on Q messages, so I broke off headers into their own data block. One header per line of data, so I can column-block the hours or minutes or seconds for every message, in order, in under ten seconds. For this kind of work this editor is priceless. So near-infinite options can be explored analysis-wise in a very short time.
Damn … if that doesn't cover it all, not sure what will. Maybe they were supposed to do a trade on a bridge and the white hats got the shaft.