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.TH TZSELECT 8 2007-05-18 "" "Linux System Administration"
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.SH NAME
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tzselect \- select a timezone
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B tzselect
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B tzselect
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program asks the user for information about the current location,
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and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard output.
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The output is suitable as a value for the
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.B TZ
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environment variable.
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.PP
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All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
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.SH "EXIT STATUS"
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The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained
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from the user, non-zero otherwise.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.TP
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\fBAWK\fP
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Name of a Posix-compliant
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.I awk
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program (default:
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.BR awk ).
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.TP
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\fBTZDIR\fP
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Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default:
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.IR /usr/share/zoneinfo ).
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.\" or perhaps /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo in some older systems.
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/iso3166.tab\fP
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Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
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.TP
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\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/zone.tab\fP
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Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
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descriptive comments.
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.TP
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\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/\fP\fITZ\fP
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Time zone data file for timezone \fITZ\fP.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR tzfile (5),
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.BR zdump (8),
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.BR zic (8)
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.\" @(#)tzselect.8 1.3
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