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tzselect

select a timezone

tzselect

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.

The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, and is nonzero otherwise.

Name of a POSIX-compliant awk program (default: awk).
Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo).

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.

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

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