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.TH TZSELECT 8 2007-05-18 "" "Linux System Administration"

.SH NAME

tzselect \- select a timezone

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B tzselect

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.B 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

.B TZ

environment variable.

.PP

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

.SH EXIT STATUS

The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained

from the user, and is nonzero otherwise.

.SH ENVIRONMENT

.TP

.B AWK

Name of a POSIX-compliant

.I awk

program (default:

.BR awk ).

.TP

.B TZDIR

Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default:

.IR /usr/share/zoneinfo ).

.\" or perhaps /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo in some older systems.

.SH FILES

.TP

\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/iso3166.tab\fP

Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.

.TP

\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/zone.tab\fP

Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and

descriptive comments.

.TP

\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/\fP\fITZ\fP

Timezone data file for timezone

.IR TZ .

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR tzfile (5),

.BR zdump (8),

.BR zic (8)

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