TZSELECT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, the manual for TZSELECT(1) from the Debian Timezone Configuration section is here, and the name is tzselect. Its whole job is to view timezones 🌍✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tzselect

Literally just type tzselect and go. No extra parameters needed 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this page is all about how you can use the tzselect utility to check out the timezones you have installed 🌸 It's perfect when you're wondering what time it is in another country, or when you're just curious what timezones even exist 🧚

You run tzselect with no parameters from the shell. It pulls up a list of about one dozen geographic areas that you can roughly recognize as continents 🌏 Pick a geographic area by its number, and then you get a list of countries and cities in that area. Iconic behavior, fr fr 👑

Press the Enter key to reprint the list. To choose a timezone, just press the number to its left 🔢 If your input is invalid, no stress, the list just gets reprinted for you 🫶

You can press Ctrl-C to interrupt the script at any time 🛑 You're always in control.

Heads up, bestie: tzselect will not actually change the timezone for you 💀 If you want to do that, use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata instead.

🧚 FILES 🧚

• /usr/share/zoneinfo/

That's where the timezone data lives 🗂️

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• hwclock(8)

Lowkey related, so check it out if you want more ⏰

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 1998 Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>

Please see the nroff source for the legal notice 📜

Debian 🌈 12 June 1998 🌈 TZSELECT(1) — that's a wrap, bestie! You're officially a timezone pro now 💅🩷