TZSELECT(8) |
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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, 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
-
Time zone data file for timezone
TZ.
SEE ALSO
tzfile(5),
zdump(8),
zic(8)
COLOPHON
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