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| .TH TZSELECT 8 2021-03-22 "" "Linux System Administration" |
| .SH NAME |
| tzselect \- select a timezone |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .nf |
| .B tzselect |
| .fi |
| .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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