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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, and is 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
              Timezone data file for timezone TZ.

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

                                                                               2021-03-22                                                                    TZSELECT(8)