tzselect - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

tzselect - select a time zone

SYNOPSIS

tzselect

DESCRIPTION

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

Tag	Description
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

Tag	Description
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.