Re: Default time for unmarked history lines

[Reuben Thomas]

On 11 January 2016 at 14:22, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

For a history file without any timestamps, using
the current default and setting the history entry timestamp to the current
time is more appropriate.

​Why is that? The only similar thing I can think of is file systems, where if you zero the metadata you get timestamps of the epoch, not the current time.​
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You probably also have histappend set or didn't use something like
`history -w' to force the entire history file to be written when the shell
exits.

​That's right.

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