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tzselect (8)
TZSELECT(8) Linux System Administration TZSELECT(8)
NAME
tzselect - select a time zone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current
location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard
output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment vari-
able.
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard
error.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone 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 time zone 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 time zone TZ.
SEE ALSO
tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
2007-05-18 TZSELECT(8)
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