TZSELECT(8)TZSELECT(8)NAMEtzselect - select a time zone
SYNOPSIStzselectDESCRIPTION
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 vari‐
able.
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/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 time zone TZ.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from
the user, non-zero otherwise.
SEE ALSOtzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)TZSELECT(8)