shell reported time different for root , and user ...

.... 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 ...


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Re: shell reported time different for root , and user ...

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 ...

.... 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 ...

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