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created SCCS-file: tzselect.8 SCCS-SID: 1.1
1996-09-08 15:50:26 -04:00
.TH TZSELECT 8
.SH NAME
tzselect \- select a time zone
.SH SYNOPSIS
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.el ds - \-
created SCCS-file: tzselect.8 SCCS-SID: 1.1
1996-09-08 15:50:26 -04:00
.B tzselect
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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[
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B \*-c
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
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.I coord
] [
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B \*-n
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
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.I limit
] [
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B \*-\*-help
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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] [
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B \*-\*-version
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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]
created SCCS-file: tzselect.8 SCCS-SID: 1.1
1996-09-08 15:50:26 -04:00
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B 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.
.PP
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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.SH OPTIONS
.TP
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.BI "\*-c " coord
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
2013-08-20 00:57:59 -07:00
Instead of asking for continent and then country and then city,
ask for selection from time zones whose largest cities
are closest to the location with geographical coordinates
tzselect: -c COORD now supports more ISO 6709 forms * tzselect.ksh (LC_ALL): Don't set this, so that the user can use the locale's decimal point in coordinates. (convert_coord): Rename from cvt1. All callers changed. Support more ISO 6709 forms. * tzselect.8: Document -c better, including the new forms.
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.I coord.
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
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Use ISO 6709 notation for
tzselect: -c COORD now supports more ISO 6709 forms * tzselect.ksh (LC_ALL): Don't set this, so that the user can use the locale's decimal point in coordinates. (convert_coord): Rename from cvt1. All callers changed. Support more ISO 6709 forms. * tzselect.8: Document -c better, including the new forms.
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.I 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 fraction: 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
.I "DDMM, DDDMM, DDMMSS,"
or
.I DDDMMSS
representing
.I DD
or
.I DDD
degrees,
.I MM
minutes,
and zero or
.I SS
seconds, with any trailing fractions represent fractional minutes or
(if
.I SS
is present) seconds. The decimal point is that of the current locale.
For example, in the (default) C locale,
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B "\*-c\ +40.689\*-074.045"
tzselect: -c COORD now supports more ISO 6709 forms * tzselect.ksh (LC_ALL): Don't set this, so that the user can use the locale's decimal point in coordinates. (convert_coord): Rename from cvt1. All callers changed. Support more ISO 6709 forms. * tzselect.8: Document -c better, including the new forms.
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specifies 40.689\(de\|N, 74.045\(de\|W,
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B "\*-c\ +4041.4\*-07402.7"
tzselect: -c COORD now supports more ISO 6709 forms * tzselect.ksh (LC_ALL): Don't set this, so that the user can use the locale's decimal point in coordinates. (convert_coord): Rename from cvt1. All callers changed. Support more ISO 6709 forms. * tzselect.8: Document -c better, including the new forms.
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specifies 40\(de\|41.4\(fm\|N, 74\(de\|2.7\(fm\|W, and
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.B "\*-c\ +404121\*-0740240"
tzselect: -c COORD now supports more ISO 6709 forms * tzselect.ksh (LC_ALL): Don't set this, so that the user can use the locale's decimal point in coordinates. (convert_coord): Rename from cvt1. All callers changed. Support more ISO 6709 forms. * tzselect.8: Document -c better, including the new forms.
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specifies 40\(de\|41\(fm\|21\(sd\|N, 74\(de\|2\(fm\|40\(sd\|W.
If
.I coord
is not one of the documented forms, the resulting behavior is unspecified.
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
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.TP
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
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.BI "\*-n " limit
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
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When
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
2014-06-28 16:35:14 -07:00
.B \*-c
tzselect: new options -c COORD and -n LIMIT These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates. Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from issues of nationality. * tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options. * tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids. (LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments. (usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better. (output_distances): New variable.
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is used, display the closest
.I limit
locations (default 10).
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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.TP
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
2014-06-28 16:35:14 -07:00
.B "\*-\*-help"
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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Output help information and exit.
.TP
Fix glitches with '-' and italics in man pages. Using '\-' to denote ASCII minus has problems in groff output, since it generates a minus sign in the current font, and if you cut and paste from the documentation the resulting text won't work. To avoid the problem, define a string \*- that expands to ASCII minus in a constant-width font in groff. Also, change some instances of \(mi and \(pl to use plain \- and +, since we no longer need special fonts for these. Finally, remove some no-longer-needed instances of "\^" after italicized words.
2014-06-28 16:35:14 -07:00
.B "\*-\*-version"
Add -t ZONETABTYPE option to 'tzselect'. This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new "-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example, the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html> * .gitignore: Add time.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro. (TABDATA): Add time.tab. (all): Depend on $(TABDATA). (install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it. Install time.tab too. (time.tab): New rule. (tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE. * zone-time.awk: New file. * tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while we're at it. * tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var. Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option. Check that no extra operands are given. * zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two tables better.
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Output version information and exit.
created SCCS-file: tzselect.8 SCCS-SID: 1.1
1996-09-08 15:50:26 -04:00
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.TP
\f3AWK\fP
Name of a Posix-compliant
.I awk
program (default:
.BR awk ).
.TP
\f3TZDIR\fP
Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default:
.BR /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo ).
.SH FILES
.TP
\f2TZDIR\fP\f3/iso3166.tab\fP
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
.TP
Rename time.tab to zone1970.tab. * Makefile (ZONETABLES): Rename from TIMETABLES. All uses changed. * zone1970.tab: Rename from time.tab. All uses changed.
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\f2TZDIR\fP\f3/zone1970.tab\fP
New file time.tab, superseding zone.tab It allows multiple country codes per zone. Switch code and data to use the new format, along with the recently-added Crozet Islands entry. The old zone.tab file is still installed but is deprecated. The new file uses UTF-8; add commentary saying that iso3166.tab is planned to change to UTF-8. * Theory, tzselect.8 (FILES): zone.tab -> time.tab. * africa (Indian/Alfred_Faure): Remove link. * antarctica: Mention Possession Island in comments. * checktab.awk: Add support for checking time.tab. * iso3166.tab: Mention planned switch to UTF-8. Update ISO 3166-1 Newsletter from VI-15 to VI-16. * time.tab: New file. * tzselect.ksh (zonetabtype): New variable. Add undocumented -t option, meant for developer testing. (TZ_ZONE_TABLE): Use zonetabtype. (output_distances, countries, regions, TZ): Support time.tab format. (quoted_continents, distance_table, countries, regions) (TZ, TZ_for_date): Quote shell strings more carefully. * zone.tab: Refer to time.tab for detailed comments about format. (Indian/Alfred_Faure): Remove. * Makefile (TIMETABLES): New macro. (TABDATA, install, check_tables): Use it. (check_character_set, check_tables): Check time.tab too. (check_time_t_alternatives): Use time.tab, not zone.tab. * NEWS: Document the above.
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Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, zone names, and
created SCCS-file: tzselect.8 SCCS-SID: 1.1
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descriptive comments.
.TP
\f2TZDIR\fP\f3/\fP\f2TZ\fP
Time zone data file for time zone \f2TZ\fP.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user,
nonzero otherwise.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
* tzselect.8: Fix formatting glitch by creating NOTES section.
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.SH NOTES
Applications should not assume that
.BR tzselect 's
output matches the user's political preferences.
public domain SCCS-file: tzselect.8 SCCS-SID: 8.2
2009-05-17 14:37:50 -04:00
.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
.\" 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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