timezone

Displays current time, date, and timezone information.

• Kind: info_provider
• Binary: xfetch-plugin-timezone
• Dependencies: date (required), timedatectl (optional)

Configuration

{
    "info_plugins": [{ "plugin": "timezone" }],
    "modules": ["plugin:timezone"]
}

Arguments

Field	Required	Default	Description
format	No	%Z %z	date format string for timezone display

The format arg is ignored on Windows (no GNU date); Linux and macOS only.

Output

State	Output
Normal	 Wednesday, 23 July 2026 14:30 /  America/New York (EST -05:00)
Not detected	 Timezone: unknown

Timezone is detected from /etc/timezone > /etc/localtime symlink > timedatectl.