TZSELECT
Section: Linux System Administration (8)
Updated: 2007-05-18
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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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