Hi, this is just a suggestion, not sure it will work in your particular case. What you may want to do is check /etc/localtime. As far as I can tell, your prompt looks syntactically correct. Have you possibly upgraded any libs? i.e ones that deal with timezone data? BC that would be a place to start. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <ma-linux at tux.org> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:50 PM Subject: What time is it? > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
