Name
tzselect - select a timezoneSynopsis
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
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