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