I'm one of those folks who likes to set her bash prompt in a particular way. My [particular thing is to have the time provided in the prompt. Ofr course, that's only the time as of when the command prompt is returned, but that is actually helpful to me. In part, I like this because I travel a good deal, and it's useful to have the current local time displayed frequently. Problem is, it doesn't work. It used to, but no longer, and I don't know exactly when or how it got broken. Some facts: I'm running Red Hat 8.0 (fully updated). That's bash version: GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) I have the following prompt string defined: PS1="[\u@\h \t] \W\\\$" And, indeed, this displays the current time. But, it doesn't track time zone changes. For example, I'm currently writing from L.A., so I have: export "TZ=US/Pacific" #Pacific Time And, indeed, issuing the 'date' command reflects this: Mon Feb 17 19:19:38 PST 2003 [janina at toccata 22:19:38] janina$ But, as you can plainly see, the prompt comes back in Eastern Time, not Pacific. What's wrong? How do I fix it? Or, am I supposed to stay home and not miss blizzards?? <grin> -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
