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 variable.

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, 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
    Time zone data file for timezone TZ.

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

COLOPHON
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