GNU/Linux |
RedHat 9.0(Shrike) |
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tzselect(8) |
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tzselect − select a time zone
tzselect
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.
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). |
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.
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.
newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
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