$ tzselect Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", or "TZ". 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) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates. 12) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format. #? 11 Please enter coordinates in ISO 6709 notation. For example, +4042-07403 stands for 40 degrees 42 minutes north, 74 degrees 3 minutes west. +5539+01221 Please select one of the following time zone regions, listed roughly in increasing order of distance from +5539+01221. 1) Denmark 6) Netherlands 2) Germany - most locations 7) Czech Republic 3) Norway 8) Aaland Islands 4) Russia - Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad 9) Poland 5) Sweden 10) Latvia #? 1 The following information has been given: coord +5539+01221 Denmark Therefore TZ='Europe/Copenhagen' will be used. Local time is now: Sun Aug 9 17:35:07 CEST 2015. Universal Time is now: Sun Aug 9 15:35:07 UTC 2015. Is the above information OK? 1) Yes 2) No #? 1 You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line TZ='Europe/Copenhagen'; 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/Copenhagen