TZSELECT

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)