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Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

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457 points benoitg | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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Henchman21 ◴[24 Jun 25 14:49 UTC] No.44366876[source]▶
Genuine question for all the people putting timestamps in your prompts: do you never look at your command history and see that they’re all timestamped?
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1. hiAndrewQuinn ◴[24 Jun 25 16:31 UTC] No.44367962[source]▶
Per the Bash `history` manpage:

    int history_write_timestamps
       If non-zero, timestamps are written to the history file, so they can be preserved between sessions.  The default value is 0, [...]
So this isn't true by default on many machines unless it is explicitly turned on.

I could find no command line history for Bash when I poked around. I use the fish shell, however, which does embed timestamp data by default - but I rarely think to look there when the detail might be pertinent. C'est la vie.

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2. Henchman21 ◴[24 Jun 25 16:41 UTC] No.44368091[source]▶
Aha now that makes some sense. I am a bash user— and I’ll admit my settings are OLD. So old I’ve forgotten the defaults entirely. Thanks for the reminder :)