Strange File Timestamp Issues For One User...

[Lee Harris_1]

One of our other support guys is having a very strange problem on 11.00 and 11.11 boxes. If he does an ll in a directory, the files all show timestamps that are 4 hours behind their real timestamp. If I logon to the same server and run ll in the same directory as him, I see everything with the correct timestamps, and his show exactly four hours behind.

We are both using exactly the same Terminal Emulation application, with the same settings and our Unix IDs are identical, both using the same profile, .cshrc, .exrc file etc etc.

Has anyone come across this sort of problem before?

Many Thanks - Lee

[John Poff]

Hi,

Could your friend somehow have a strange setting for his timezone? You could each do the 'date' command and see if you are both in the same time zone.

JP

[Patrick Wallek]

I would bet that he has a different timezone set.

Do an

$ echo $TZ

If it is not set to the appropriate time zone, reset it.

$ export TZ=???????

Where the ??????? is the appropriate timezone for you.

[Lee Harris_1]

We both ran the date command on the same server and both get exactly the same date / time.

[Lee Harris_1]

We both did this and both of us are set to GMT0BST which is correct.

[Sundar_7]

hmm interesting - did u check if he has aliased ll to show the access/ctime ?

# whence ll

post the output

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Sorry it is whence -v ll

[Lee Harris_1]

Bingo...

I know what the problem is now. Thanks very much.

Regards - Lee