Re: the watch variable

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14,  1:04am, Miek Gieben wrote:
}
}  WATCHFMT='At %T %n has %a from %M.'
}  watch=( notme )
} 
} And I notice that the login times are correct, i.e. it is the time
} that the person actually logged in. But the log off times are wrong.
} I'm seeing the current time in stead of the actual time someone logged
} off.
} 
} Is this a bug? 

No, though I suppose you could call it a misfeature.

Zsh only examines the most recent 50 records when determining login/out
times, because searching the entire wtmp file would take far too long.
So if there's a lot of activity on the system, the record for the person
in question may have been pushed beyond 50-record region, and zsh falls
back to the current time.

If that doesn't seem to explain what you're seeing, let zsh-workers know.