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TZSELECT
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NAME
tzselect - select a time zoneSYNOPSIS
tzselectDESCRIPTION
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.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- AWK
- Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
- TZDIR
- Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/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.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.SEE ALSO
newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)