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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 non-
zero otherwise.

ENVIRONMENT
AWK Name of a POSIX-compliant awk program (default: awk).

TZDIR Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zone-
info).

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 com-
ments.

TZDIR/TZ
Timezone data file for timezone TZ.