TZSELECT(8)                                        Linux System Administration                                       TZSELECT(8)



NAME
       tzselect - select a timezone

SYNOPSIS
       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, 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
              Time zone data file for timezone TZ.

SEE ALSO
       tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



                                                           2007-05-18                                                TZSELECT(8)