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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:29:37+00:00

I have an application that writes to another application and needs to provide the

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I have an application that writes to another application and needs to provide the date + timezone of the system. I have been using strftime with the %z argument to get the timezone, and it has been working very well on Linux. However, last week we decided to merge it to solaris just to find out that %z is not present.

Someone suggested to use %Z, which will give the timezone name, but I need the %z which gives the timezone with the offset format, like +0100 or -0300.

Anyone has ideas?

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  1. %z is not POSIX. You will have to calculate the offset yourself by finding the difference between localtime and gmtime.

    For a Perl example, see here.

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