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@ 2008-01-29  9:55 terry white
  2008-01-29 10:50 ` Adam T. Bowen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: terry white @ 2008-01-29  9:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-admin

... ciao:

    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.

    this a fresh install with sources from october of last year.

    any thought much appreciated ...


-- 
... i'm a man, but i can change,
    if i have to , i guess ...


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* Re: shell reported time different for root , and user ...
  2008-01-29  9:55 shell reported time different for root , and user terry white
@ 2008-01-29 10:50 ` Adam T. Bowen
  2008-01-29 16:05   ` terry white
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Adam T. Bowen @ 2008-01-29 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-admin

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

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* Re: shell reported time different for root , and user ...
  2008-01-29 10:50 ` Adam T. Bowen
@ 2008-01-29 16:05   ` terry white
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: terry white @ 2008-01-29 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-admin

... ciao:

: > on "1-29-2008" "Adam T. Bowen" writ:

: If it is a binary file, what does:
:    tail -1 /etc/localtime

   PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 ...

-- 
... i'm a man, but i can change,
    if i have to , i guess ...


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