Utterly confused by the timestamp of the last item of command history vs. the last modified time of .bash_history
I configured all users with HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y%m%dT%H%M%S%z " Below I quote anonymized output from bash to commands date, history 12, and alias lis (i.e., "ls -Zilas") someUser:~$ date Wed Jul 23 07:12:56 PM PDT 2025 someUser:~$ history 12 1262 20250723T184953-0700 journalctl | grep -F "Jul 23" | grep DBus 1263 20250723T185529-0700 tail /home/anotherUser/.bash_history 1264 20250723T185726-0700 lis /home/anotherUser/.* 1265 20250723T190000-0700 vim /etc/bash.bashrc 1266 20250723T190115-0700 whereis history 1267 20250723T190138-0700 man history 1268 20250723T190229-0700 man -K bash 1269 20250723T191113-0700 journalctl | grep "Jul 23" | grep "DBus" 1270 20250723T191221-0700 history 10 1271 20250723T191240-0700 lis .bash* 1272 20250723T191256-0700 date 1273 20250723T191303-0700 history 12 someUser:~$ lis .bash* 45408 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root ? 46 Jul 9 19:21 .bash_aliases 45551 44 -rw------- 1 root root ? 43252 Jul 23 19:06 .bash_history 1213 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root ? 571 Apr 10 2021 .bashrc NOTICE (time stamp in 24hr format 19:12:56) someUser:~$ date Wed Jul 23 07:12:56 PM PDT 2025 NOTICE last item of history 12 20250723T191303-0700 history 12 NOTICE the last modified time .bash_history file is 20250723T1906 I expected .bash_history file to be synced to time of last issued command (i.e. 20250723T191303-0700) WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE timestamp of the history command entries and the last modified time of bash_history file for the given user? Is this working as it should? Thanx
