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Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open Terminal, then run the command below:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

Or, to make the change permanent for the current user:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Then

history

For more info see man bash or An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux.

For commands that were run before HISTTIMEFORMAT was set, the current time will be saved as the timestamp. Commands run after HISTTIMEFORMAT was set will have the proper timestamp saved.

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  Note that this will only record timestamps for new history items, after HISTTIMEFORMAT is set for sessions, i.e. you can't use this retrospectively. Some answers here give the impression the history command immediately shows timestamped entries
  
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Open terminalCtrl+Alt+T and run,

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

then,

history

To make the changes permanent follow the below steps,

gedit ~/.bashrc

you need to add the below line to .bashrc file and then save it,

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

run the below command to source .bashrc file,

source ~/.bashrc

After that run history command.

source:http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-bash-history-display-date-time/

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Yes, you can: if you set $HISTTIMEFORMAT, the .bash-history will be properly timestamped. That doesn't help with existing .bash-history content, but will help in the future.

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You'll see changes on next login.

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc

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To enable history timestamps for all users, create a script in /etc/profile.d :

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y%m%d %T "' >> /etc/profile.d/timestamp.sh

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I know, I'm answering it very late, but to do this for all the users, you can create any .sh file in /etc/profile.d and add the following line to it:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %T "' >> /etc/profile.d/existing-foo-file.sh

If you not logged in as root or superuser, you need to use the tee command to do this:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %T "' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/mytimestamp.sh

If you want to append to any existing file, pass -a flag to tee command:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %T "' | sudo tee -a /etc/profile.d/mytimestamp.sh

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Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open Terminal, then run the command below:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

Or, to make the change permanent for the current user:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Then

history

For more info see man bash or An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux.

For commands that were run before HISTTIMEFORMAT was set, the current time will be saved as the timestamp. Commands run after HISTTIMEFORMAT was set will have the proper timestamp saved.

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  Oct 19 '15 at 21:36
  

  
  
  
  


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  Note that this will only record timestamps for new history items, after HISTTIMEFORMAT is set for sessions, i.e. you can't use this retrospectively. Some answers here give the impression the history command immediately shows timestamped entries
  
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  Feb 20 '16 at 20:58
  
  

  
  
  
  


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Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open Terminal, then run the command below:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

Or, to make the change permanent for the current user:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Then

history

For more info see man bash or An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux.

For commands that were run before HISTTIMEFORMAT was set, the current time will be saved as the timestamp. Commands run after HISTTIMEFORMAT was set will have the proper timestamp saved.

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  Note that this will only record timestamps for new history items, after HISTTIMEFORMAT is set for sessions, i.e. you can't use this retrospectively. Some answers here give the impression the history command immediately shows timestamped entries
  
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Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open Terminal, then run the command below:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

Or, to make the change permanent for the current user:

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Then

history

For more info see man bash or An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux.

For commands that were run before HISTTIMEFORMAT was set, the current time will be saved as the timestamp. Commands run after HISTTIMEFORMAT was set will have the proper timestamp saved.

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HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

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Open terminalCtrl+Alt+T and run,

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

then,

history

To make the changes permanent follow the below steps,

gedit ~/.bashrc

you need to add the below line to .bashrc file and then save it,

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

run the below command to source .bashrc file,

source ~/.bashrc

After that run history command.

source:http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-bash-history-display-date-time/

share|improve this answer

edited Dec 16 '13 at 2:25

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  Thanks for answering , will it be permanent change ?
  
  – rɑːdʒɑ
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  Hey, I'm doing this in OS X and Windows (through MINGW), and I'm adding it into .bash_profile, what's the diff between profile and rc?
  
  – LasagnaAndroid
  Oct 1 '15 at 17:28
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
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73

Open terminalCtrl+Alt+T and run,

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

then,

history

To make the changes permanent follow the below steps,

gedit ~/.bashrc

you need to add the below line to .bashrc file and then save it,

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

run the below command to source .bashrc file,

source ~/.bashrc

After that run history command.

source:http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-bash-history-display-date-time/

share|improve this answer

edited Dec 16 '13 at 2:25

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  Hey, I'm doing this in OS X and Windows (through MINGW), and I'm adding it into .bash_profile, what's the diff between profile and rc?
  
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Open terminalCtrl+Alt+T and run,

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

then,

history

To make the changes permanent follow the below steps,

gedit ~/.bashrc

you need to add the below line to .bashrc file and then save it,

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

run the below command to source .bashrc file,

source ~/.bashrc

After that run history command.

source:http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-bash-history-display-date-time/

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HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

history

gedit ~/.bashrc

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

source ~/.bashrc

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Yes, you can: if you set $HISTTIMEFORMAT, the .bash-history will be properly timestamped. That doesn't help with existing .bash-history content, but will help in the future.

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  Correction to previous post: Setting HISTTIMEFORMAT enables the display of the timestamps...even existing. My favorite is:HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' as it matters not from which country you reside...everyone knows immediately what time it is. :)
  
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  I set $HISTTIMEFORMAT and I got the times for today even before the commands of this set.
  
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  @user491029 "...even existing". This is true, but misleading. On ubuntu 14.04, at least, it did start showing timestamps for all history entries once I had set HISTTIMEFORMAT, but it looks like the timestamps for any command run before the current session were the login timestamp of the current session.
  
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Yes, you can: if you set $HISTTIMEFORMAT, the .bash-history will be properly timestamped. That doesn't help with existing .bash-history content, but will help in the future.

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  Correction to previous post: Setting HISTTIMEFORMAT enables the display of the timestamps...even existing. My favorite is:HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' as it matters not from which country you reside...everyone knows immediately what time it is. :)
  
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Yes, you can: if you set $HISTTIMEFORMAT, the .bash-history will be properly timestamped. That doesn't help with existing .bash-history content, but will help in the future.

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You'll see changes on next login.

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc

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You'll see changes on next login.

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc

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You'll see changes on next login.

echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc

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echo 'HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bashrc

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