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TZSELECT
!!!TZSELECT
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
FILES
EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO
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!!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)
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