NAME

     tzselect - select a time zone

SYNOPSIS
     tzselect

DESCRIPTION
     The tzselect program asks the user for information about the
     current location, and outputs the resulting time zone
     description to standard output.  The output is suitable as a
     value for the TZ environment variable.

     All interaction with the user is done via standard input and
     standard error.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     AWK  Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default:  awk).

     TZDIR
          Name of the directory containing time zone data files
          (default:  /usr/local/etc/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
          Time zone data file for time zone TZ.

EXIT STATUS
     The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully
     obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.

SEE ALSO
     newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
