diff --git a/apache-fake-log-gen.py b/apache-fake-log-gen.py
index cacf642..dd514b7 100644
--- a/apache-fake-log-gen.py
+++ b/apache-fake-log-gen.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import sys
 import argparse
 from faker import Faker
 from random import randrange
+from tzlocal import get_localzone
+local = get_localzone()
 
 #todo:
 # allow writing different patterns (Common Log, Apache Error log etc)
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ while (flag):
 
 	ip = faker.ipv4()
 	dt = otime.strftime('%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S')
-	tz = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%z')
+	tz = datetime.datetime.now(local).strftime('%z')
 	vrb = numpy.random.choice(verb,p=[0.6,0.1,0.1,0.2])
 
 	uri = random.choice(resources)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 111cf74..79221eb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ fake-factory==0.7.2
 numpy==1.11.2
 Faker==0.7.3
 pytz==2016.7
+tzlocal==1.3.0
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