TZSELECT(8)

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.

EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone 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 time zone 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 time zone TZ.

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

COLOPHON
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