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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

tzselect(8)

Name

tzselect - select a time zone

Synopsis

/usr/bin/tzselect 

Description

The tzselect program asks you a series of questions 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 user interaction is through standard input and standard error.

Options

The tzselect command has no options.

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0

Timezone information was successfully obtained.

>0

An error occurred.

Files

/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo

directory containing time zone data files

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/core-os
Interface Stability
Committed

See Also

ctime(3C), attributes(7), zdump(8), zic(8)