{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "TZSELECT",
    "section": "8",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/TZSELECT/8/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-17T16:25:21Z",
    "synopsis": "",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "tzselect - select a timezone\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "tzselect",
                    "content": ""
                }
            ]
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "The  tzselect  program  asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs\nthe resulting timezone description to standard output.  The output is suitable as a value for\nthe TZ environment variable.\n\nAll interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "EXIT STATUS": {
            "content": "The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, and is nonzero\notherwise.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "ENVIRONMENT": {
            "content": "AWK    Name of a POSIX-compliant awk program (default: awk).\n\nTZDIR  Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo).\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "FILES": {
            "content": "TZDIR/iso3166.tab\nTable of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.\n\nTZDIR/zone.tab\nTable of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.\n\nTZDIR/TZ\nTimezone data file for timezone TZ.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COLOPHON": {
            "content": "This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A  description  of  the\nproject,  information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found\nat https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.\n\n\n\n2007-05-18                                  TZSELECT(8)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "tzselect - select a timezone",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "tzfile",
            "section": "5",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/tzfile/5/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "zdump",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/zdump/8/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "zic",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/zic/8/json"
        }
    ]
}