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Manual Reference Pages  - TZSELECT (8)

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tzselect - select a time zone

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tzselect

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 variable.

All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.

AWK	Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR	Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo).

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.

The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, non-zero otherwise.

tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)