diff --git a/aprsd/plugins/time.py b/aprsd/plugins/time.py
index 4509022..a6ded11 100644
--- a/aprsd/plugins/time.py
+++ b/aprsd/plugins/time.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import logging
 import re
-import time
 
 from oslo_config import cfg
 import pytz
+from tzlocal import get_localzone
 
 from aprsd import packets, plugin, plugin_utils
 from aprsd.utils import fuzzy, trace
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ class TimePlugin(plugin.APRSDRegexCommandPluginBase):
     short_description = "What is the current local time."
 
     def _get_local_tz(self):
-        return pytz.timezone(time.strftime("%Z"))
+        lz = get_localzone()
+        return pytz.timezone(str(lz))
 
     def _get_utcnow(self):
         return pytz.datetime.datetime.utcnow()
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 02c2508..96a9ae7 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ coverage[toml]==7.4.4     # via pytest-cov
 distlib==0.3.8            # via virtualenv
 docutils==0.20.1          # via sphinx
 exceptiongroup==1.2.0     # via pytest
-filelock==3.13.3          # via tox, virtualenv
+filelock==3.13.4          # via tox, virtualenv
 fixit==2.1.0              # via gray
 flake8==7.0.0             # via -r dev-requirements.in, pep8-naming
 gray==0.14.0              # via -r dev-requirements.in
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index c948d5b..c6677e8 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ pbr
 pyyaml
 requests
 pytz
+tzlocal
 six
 thesmuggler
 update_checker
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8d379a2..9fcb416 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ debtcollector==3.0.0      # via oslo-config
 deprecated==1.2.14        # via click-params
 dnspython==2.6.1          # via eventlet
 eventlet==0.36.1          # via -r requirements.in
-flask==3.0.2              # via -r requirements.in, flask-httpauth, flask-socketio
+flask==3.0.3              # via -r requirements.in, flask-httpauth, flask-socketio
 flask-httpauth==4.8.0     # via -r requirements.in
 flask-socketio==5.3.6     # via -r requirements.in
 geographiclib==2.0        # via geopy
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ tabulate==0.9.0           # via -r requirements.in
 thesmuggler==1.0.1        # via -r requirements.in
 typing-extensions==4.11.0  # via typing-inspect
 typing-inspect==0.9.0     # via dataclasses-json
+tzlocal==5.2              # via -r requirements.in
 update-checker==0.18.0    # via -r requirements.in
 urllib3==2.2.1            # via requests
 validators==0.22.0        # via click-params