Django template timezone in :date filter - is abbreviation possible?

Question

If I write {{some_time|date:"h:i A T"}} in a django template, it outputs "12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time". I would prefer the short timezone format "EDT". Any way you can do this?

Answer 1

It looks like on my Windows Django dev environment, it returns "Eastern Daylight Time". However, on my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation, it returns "EDT" like the documentation shows. Perhaps it is returning the underlying OS's timezone string?

Now that the behavior is known, I can code around it.