From: "Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@agitate.org.uk>
To: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: shell reported time different for root , and user ...
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:50:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <479F04F7.6070402@agitate.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0801290141440.7101@yossarian.aniota.com>
terry white wrote:
> i have a prompt that looks like:
>
> "yossarian - 01:35:40 - tty8
> [ root ] /usr/share/zoneinfo
> #"
>
> on another system. 'date' offers the correct time. however, when i
> login as 'twhite' the time given is UTC, but 'date' offers the correct
> time.
>
> i've made "localtime" 'America/Los_Angeles', and 'PST8PDT", with
> "etc/sysconfig/clock" set as both the above, and still unable to get
> it to work, and worse yet, figure out what i'm missing.
Has twhite got a timezone set using the TZ environment variable? You
could try putting a couple of date commands in the shell rc file around
where you set the prompt and see what timezone is reported when you
start a new shell.
What is your /etc/localtime file set to? If it is a soft-link what
timezone file is it pointing to? If it is a binary file, what does:
tail -1 /etc/localtime
give you?
Cheers
Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 10:50 UTC|newest]
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2008-01-29 9:55 shell reported time different for root , and user terry white
2008-01-29 10:50 ` Adam T. Bowen [this message]
2008-01-29 16:05 ` terry white
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