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<H1>TZSELECT</H1>
Section: Linux System Administration (8)<BR>Updated: 2007-05-18<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
tzselect - select a timezone
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>tzselect</B>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The
<B>tzselect</B>
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
<B>TZ</B>
environment variable.
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All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
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<H2>EXIT STATUS</H2>
The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained
from the user, and is nonzero otherwise.
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<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="1"><B>AWK</B>
<DD>
Name of a POSIX-compliant
<I>awk</I>
program (default:
<B>awk</B>).
<DT id="2"><B>TZDIR</B>
<DD>
Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default:
<I>/usr/share/zoneinfo</I>).
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<H2>FILES</H2>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="3"><B>TZDIR</B><I>/iso3166.tab</I><DD>
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
<DT id="4"><B>TZDIR</B><I>/zone.tab</I><DD>
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
descriptive comments.
<DT id="5"><B>TZDIR</B><I>/</I><I>TZ</I><DD>
Timezone data file for timezone
<I>TZ</I>.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?5+tzfile">tzfile</A></B>(5),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+zdump">zdump</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+zic">zic</A></B>(8)
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<H2>COLOPHON</H2>
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<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="9"><A HREF="#lbAE">EXIT STATUS</A><DD>
<DT id="10"><A HREF="#lbAF">ENVIRONMENT</A><DD>
<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAG">FILES</A><DD>
<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAI">COLOPHON</A><DD>
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