[jrydberg@tjorven ntp-4.2.4p0]$ date +%z
+0200
[jrydberg@tjorven ntp-4.2.4p0]$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 14:19:47)
[GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> time.tzset()
>>> print time.timezone
-3600
>>> print time.tzname
('CET', 'CEST')