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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, 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)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2007-05-18 TZSELECT(8)