Specify timezone for \today and \currenttime

Question

Is there a way I can specify the timezone LaTeX should use when printing the \today and \currenttime (or the datetime package in general)?

I need this because travisCI does build my PDF automatically on every commit and their timezone seems to be set to GMT. I'd need GMT+1.

Contrary to some other questions I don't want the timezone to be displayed, I just want the date & time to be in the specified timezone.

For building I use latexmk with pdflatex set to LuaLaTeX.

I set now the environment variable "TZ" to be "Europe/Zurich" and it seems to work at least on my local machine. Will try it on travis as well now. If it works, I'll close it.
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Thanks for the edit & the info (sorry for not formatting it properly). Yes that's what I actually intended to do - wrong naming ;)

Michael Weibel · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-06 07:42:58Z

Immediately after asking this question and Idea came to my mind which worked out.

In order to specify the timezone you can just set the usual linux environment variable TZ before building the PDF.

As an example if you have a Makefile which builds it on running make you can set it like this: TZ='Europe/Zurich' make

Or, of course, export it before running the build using export TZ='Europe/Zurich'.

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