NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXIT STATUS | ENVIRONMENT | FILES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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TZSELECT(8)                  Linux System Administration                  TZSELECT(8)

NAME         top

       tzselect - select a timezone

SYNOPSIS         top

       tzselect

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user,
       nonzero otherwise.

ENVIRONMENT         top

       AWK    Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).

       TZDIR  Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default:
              /usr/share/zoneinfo).

FILES         top

       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         top

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

COLOPHON         top

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                                      2007-05-18                          TZSELECT(8)

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