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TZSELECT(8) Linux System Administration 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 vari-
     able.
     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

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     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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