Section (8) tzselect
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
.
COLOPHON
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