1 .\" $NetBSD: tzselect.8,v 1.3 1999/11/10 20:32:31 kleink Exp $
5 tzselect \- select a time zone
11 program asks the user for information about the current location,
12 and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output.
13 The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.
15 All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
16 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
19 Name of a Posix-compliant
25 Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default:
26 .BR /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo ).
29 \f2TZDIR\fP\f3/iso3166.tab\fP
30 Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
32 \f2TZDIR\fP\f3/zone.tab\fP
33 Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and
36 \f2TZDIR\fP\f3/\fP\f2TZ\fP
37 Time zone data file for time zone \f2TZ\fP.
39 The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user,
42 newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
43 .\" @(#)tzselect.8 8.2
44 .\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
45 .\" 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.