TZSELECT(8)		  Linux System Administration		   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 vari
       able.

       All interaction with the user is done via standard input  and  standard
       error.

EXIT STATUS
       The  exit  status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from
       the user, non-zero otherwise.

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

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

SEE ALSO
       tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.05 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



				  2007-05-18			   TZSELECT(8)