man8/tzselect.8

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   5 .TH TZSELECT 8 2021-03-22 "" "Linux System Administration"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 tzselect \- select a timezone
   8 .SH SYNOPSIS
   9 .nf
  10 .B tzselect
  11 .fi
  12 .SH DESCRIPTION
  13 The
  14 .B tzselect
  15 program asks the user for information about the current location,
  16 and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard output.
  17 The output is suitable as a value for the
  18 .B TZ
  19 environment variable.
  20 .PP
  21 All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
  22 .SH EXIT STATUS
  23 The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained
  24 from the user, and is nonzero otherwise.
  25 .SH ENVIRONMENT
  26 .TP
  27 .B AWK
  28 Name of a POSIX-compliant
  29 .I awk
  30 program (default:
  31 .BR awk ).
  32 .TP
  33 .B TZDIR
  34 Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default:
  35 .IR /usr/share/zoneinfo ).
  36 .\" or perhaps /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo in some older systems.
  37 .SH FILES
  38 .TP
  39 \fBTZDIR\fP\fI/iso3166.tab\fP
  40 Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
  41 .TP
  42 \fBTZDIR\fP\fI/zone.tab\fP
  43 Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
  44 descriptive comments.
  45 .TP
  46 \fBTZDIR\fP\fI/\fP\fITZ\fP
  47 Timezone data file for timezone
  48 .IR TZ .
  49 .SH SEE ALSO
  50 .BR tzfile (5),
  51 .BR zdump (8),
  52 .BR zic (8)
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