Originally Posted by
Adak
That's what he wants. The timezone abbreviation will be arriving at his system, along with the time itself. That timezone is not his local timezone, in all cases.
I looked up the timezone abbreviations of the world, and there are a boatload! :p If he only needs a few of them, then that's the ez way to go, but he has to handle daylight savings time, still.
I was thinking if the abbreviation was put into the local copy of the environment, and then read back by the C time functions, it could be handled automatically.