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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 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
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                                             2007-05-18                                  TZSELECT(8)