tzselect(1M) System Administration Commands tzselect(1M)NAME
tzselect - select a time zone
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks you a series of questions 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 user interaction is through standard input and standard error.
OPTIONS
The tzselect command has no options.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Timezone information was successfully obtained.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo
directory containing timezone data files
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO zdump(1M), zic(1M), ctime(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2001 tzselect(1M)
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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, 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
Time zone data file for timezone TZ.
SEE ALSO tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)COLOPHON
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2007-05-18 TZSELECT(8)
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