Re: date timezone question

2004-03-31 Thread P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q1. Why is there a difference in the parsing of $TZ and --date ... timezone ? Q2. Why is a warning not printed when an invalid $TZ is set? $ TZ=America/Los_Angeles date Wed Mar 31 07:21:51 PST 2004 Missing info: $date --date "09:00 America/Los_Angeles" date: invalid da

date timezone question

2004-03-31 Thread P
Q1. Why is there a difference in the parsing of $TZ and --date ... timezone ? Q2. Why is a warning not printed when an invalid $TZ is set? Details: I needed to organise a meeting for 09:00 in San Josà and so to figure out the time here (Irish Summer Time) I did: $ date --date "09:00 PST" Wed M

Head isnt working as expected

2004-03-31 Thread Karthik Shanmugam
hi guyz!! I gotta problem with the head command. I was trying to read first few lines of .sh_history file with the command cat .sh_history | head -3 but the result wasnt the expected one. instead it juz prints the first line. When I openned the .sh_history file, i found ^A^A[ header] in the

Re: df bug with a big vfat partition [2]

2004-03-31 Thread Nicolas BENOIT
Hello, On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 08:37, Paul Eggert wrote: > Nicolas BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I run df (df /dev/hda7 -h -T for instance), I got the following > > output: > > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda7 vfat126G 35G 91G 28% /