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, 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/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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