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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

   This page is part of release 4.09 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)



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