1TZSELECT(8)               Linux System Administration              TZSELECT(8)
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NAME

6       tzselect - select a timezone
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SYNOPSIS

9       tzselect
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  tzselect  program  asks the user for information about the current
13       location, and outputs the resulting timezone  description  to  standard
14       output.  The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment vari‐
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17       All interaction with the user is done via standard input  and  standard
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EXIT STATUS

21       The  exit  status  is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from
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ENVIRONMENT

25       AWK    Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
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27       TZDIR  Name of the directory containing timezone data  files  (default:
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FILES

31       TZDIR/iso3166.tab
32              Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
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35              Table  of  country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
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39              Time zone data file for timezone TZ.
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SEE ALSO

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

45       This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
46       description  of  the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
47       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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