What time is it?

[Erik Heil]

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 at rednote.net>
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
>
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