TIMEZONE(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual TIMEZONE(3) NAME timezone – return the timezone abbreviation LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS char * timezone(int zone, int dst); DESCRIPTION This interface is for compatibility only; it is impossible to reliably map timezone's arguments to a time zone abbreviation. See ctime(3). The timezone() function returns a pointer to a time zone abbreviation for the specified zone and dst values. The zone argument is the number of minutes west of GMT and dst is non-zero if daylight savings time is in effect. SEE ALSO ctime(3) HISTORY A timezone() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p8 April 19, 1994 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p8