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TZSELECT

Section: Debian Timezone Configuration (1)
Updated: 12 June 1998
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NAME

tzselect - view timezones  

SYNOPSIS

tzselect  

DESCRIPTION

This manual page explains how you can use the tzselect utility to view the installed timezone. It comes handy when you want to know what time it is in other countries, or if you just wonder what timezones exist.

tzselect is called without any parameters from the shell. It shows a list of about one dozen geographic areas one can roughly recognize as continents. After choosing a geographic area by number, a list of countries and cities in this area will be shown.

You can press the Enter key to reprint the list. To choose a timezone, just press the number left to it. If your input is invalid, the list will be reprinted.

You may press Ctrl-C to interrupt the script at any time.

Note that tzselect will not actually change the timezone for you. Use 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' to achieve this.  

FILES

/usr/share/zoneinfo/  

SEE ALSO

hwclock(8)  

AUTHOR

Copyright 1998 Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>

Please see nroff source for legal notice.

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TZSELECT

Section: Linux System Administration (8)
Updated: 2007-05-18
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NAME

tzselect - select a timezone  

SYNOPSIS

tzselect  

DESCRIPTION

The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone 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.  

EXIT STATUS

The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, and is nonzero otherwise.  

ENVIRONMENT

AWK

Name of a POSIX-compliant awk program (default: awk).

TZDIR

Name of the directory containing timezone 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

Timezone data file for timezone TZ.

 

SEE ALSO

tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)  

COLOPHON

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