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TZSELECT(1)              Debian Timezone Configuration             TZSELECT(1)

NAME
       tzselect - view timezones

SYNOPSIS
       tzselect

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page explains how you can use the tzselect utility to view
       the installed timezone. It comes handy when you want to know what  time
       it is in other countries, or if you just wonder what timezones exist.

       tzselect  is  called  without any parameters from the shell. It shows a
       list of about one dozen geographic areas one can roughly  recognize  as
       continents. After choosing a geographic area by number, a list of coun-
       tries and cities in this area will be shown.

       You can press the Enter key to reprint the list. To choose a  timezone,
       just  press  the number left to it.  If your input is invalid, the list
       will be reprinted.

       You may press Ctrl-C to interrupt the script at any time.

       Note that tzselect will not actually change the timezone for  you.  Use
       'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' to achieve this.

FILES
       /usr/share/zoneinfo/

SEE ALSO
       hwclock(8)

AUTHOR
       Copyright 1998 Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd AT debian.org>

       Please see nroff source for legal notice.

Debian                           12 June 1998                      TZSELECT(1)
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
       This page is part of release 5.10 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)