TZSELECT(8)							  TZSELECT(8)



NAME
       tzselect - select a time zone

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

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

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)



								  TZSELECT(8)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. time
2. as
3. awk
4. file