TZSELECT (8)

SYNOPSIS

tzselect

DESCRIPTION

The 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 VARIABLES

\f3AWK

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

\f3TZDIR

Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo ).

FILES

\f2TZDIR\f3/iso3166.tab

Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.

\f2TZDIR\f3/zone.tab

Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.

\f2TZDIR\f3/\f2TZ

Time zone data file for time zone \f2TZ.

EXIT STATUS

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

SEE ALSO

- newctime (3) - - tzfile (5) - - zdump (8) - - zic (8) -