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,
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
- Time zone data file for timezone TZ.
SEE ALSO¶
tzfile(5),
zdump(8),
zic(8)
COLOPHON¶
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