--- a/date.rst Mon Mar 30 13:03:35 2009 +0300
+++ b/date.rst Mon Mar 30 17:27:20 2009 +0300
@@ -62,3 +62,65 @@
Local time is now: Sun Feb 22 12:40:16 EET 2009.
Universal Time is now: Sun Feb 22 10:40:16 UTC 2009.
Your current time zone is set to Europe/Kiev
+
+Or using tzselect:
+
+ $ sudo tzselect
+Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
+Please select a continent or ocean.
+ 1) Africa
+ 2) Americas
+ 3) Antarctica
+ 4) Arctic Ocean
+ 5) Asia
+ 6) Atlantic Ocean
+ 7) Australia
+ 8) Europe
+ 9) Indian Ocean
+10) Pacific Ocean
+11) none - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.
+#? 8
+Please select a country.
+ 1) Aaland Islands 18) Greece 35) Norway
+ 2) Albania 19) Guernsey 36) Poland
+ 3) Andorra 20) Hungary 37) Portugal
+ 4) Austria 21) Ireland 38) Romania
+ 5) Belarus 22) Isle of Man 39) Russia
+ 6) Belgium 23) Italy 40) San Marino
+ 7) Bosnia & Herzegovina 24) Jersey 41) Serbia
+ 8) Britain (UK) 25) Latvia 42) Slovakia
+ 9) Bulgaria 26) Liechtenstein 43) Slovenia
+10) Croatia 27) Lithuania 44) Spain
+11) Czech Republic 28) Luxembourg 45) Sweden
+12) Denmark 29) Macedonia 46) Switzerland
+13) Estonia 30) Malta 47) Turkey
+14) Finland 31) Moldova 48) Ukraine
+15) France 32) Monaco 49) Vatican City
+16) Germany 33) Montenegro
+17) Gibraltar 34) Netherlands
+#? 48
+Please select one of the following time zone regions.
+1) most locations 3) Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk
+2) Ruthenia 4) central Crimea
+#? 1
+
+The following information has been given:
+
+ Ukraine
+ most locations
+
+Therefore TZ='Europe/Kiev' will be used.
+Local time is now: Mon Mar 30 17:25:21 EEST 2009.
+Universal Time is now: Mon Mar 30 14:25:21 UTC 2009.
+Is the above information OK?
+1) Yes
+2) No
+#? 1
+
+You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line
+ TZ='Europe/Kiev'; export TZ
+to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again.
+
+Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you
+can use the /usr/bin/tzselect command in shell scripts:
+Europe/Kiev