Query: tzselect
OS: redhat
Section: 8
Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar
TZSELECT(8) System Manager's Manual TZSELECT(8)NAMEtzselect - select a time zoneSYNOPSIStzselectDESCRIPTIONThe 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 VARIABLESAWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk). TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo).FILESTZDIR/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 STATUSThe exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.SEE ALSOnewctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8) TZSELECT(8)