.TH TZSELECT 8
.SH NAME
tzselect \- select a time zone
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tzselect
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B 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.
.PP
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.TP
\fBAWK\fP
Name of a Posix-compliant
.I awk
program (default:
.BR awk ).
.TP
\fBTZDIR\fP
Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default:
.IR /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo ).
.SH FILES
.TP
\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/iso3166.tab\fP
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
.TP
\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/zone.tab\fP
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
descriptive comments.
.TP
\fBTZDIR\fP\fI/\fP\fITZ\fP
Time zone data file for time zone \fITZ\fP.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user,
nonzero otherwise.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tzfile (5),
.BR zdump (8),
.BR zic (8)
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