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TZSELECT(8)							   TZSELECT(8)

NAME
       tzselect - select a time zone

SYNOPSIS
       tzselect [ -c coord ] [ -n limit ] [ --help ] [ --version ]

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.

OPTIONS
       -c coord
	      Instead  of asking for continent and then country and then city,
	      ask for selection from time zones whose largest cities are clos‐
	      est  to  the  location with geographical coordinates coord.  Use
	      ISO 6709 notation for coord, that	 is,  a	 latitude  immediately
	      followed	by  a longitude.  The latitude and longitude should be
	      signed integers followed by an optional decimal point and	 frac‐
	      tion:  positive numbers represent north and east, negative south
	      and west.	 Latitudes with two and longitudes with three  integer
	      digits  are  treated  as degrees; latitudes with four or six and
	      longitudes with five or seven  integer  digits  are  treated  as
	      DDMM,  DDDMM, DDMMSS, or DDDMMSS representing DD or DDD degrees,
	      MM minutes, and zero or SS seconds, with any trailing  fractions
	      represent fractional minutes or (if SS is present) seconds.  The
	      decimal point is that of the current locale.   For  example,  in
	      the  (default)  C locale, -c +40.689-074.045 specifies 40.689°N,
	      74.045°W, -c +4041.4-07402.7 specifies 40°41.4′N, 74°2.7′W,  and
	      -c +404121-0740240 specifies 40°41′21″N, 74°2′40″W.  If coord is
	      not one of the  documented  forms,  the  resulting  behavior  is
	      unspecified.

       -n limit
	      When  -c	is  used, display the closest limit locations (default
	      10).

       Applications should not	assume	that  tzselect's  output  matches  the
       user's political preferences.

--help
Output help information and exit.

--version
Output version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       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).

FILES
       TZDIR/iso3166.tab
	      Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.

       TZDIR/zone.tab
	      Tables of country codes, latitude and longitude, zone names, and
	      descriptive comments.

       TZDIR/TZ
	      Time zone data file for time zone TZ.

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

SEE ALSO
       newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)

								   TZSELECT(8)

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