tzselect(8) System Manager's Manual tzselect(8)
NAME
tzselect - select a timezone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current
location, and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard
output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment vari-
able.
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard
error.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from
the user, and is nonzero otherwise.
ENVIRONMENT
AWK Name of a POSIX-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default:
/usr/share/zoneinfo).
FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
TZDIR/zone.tab
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
descriptive comments.
TZDIR/TZ
Timezone data file for timezone TZ.
SEE ALSO
tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
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