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.