diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index b35c7d17911..2ca7fed4758 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ U: tene
 D: Minor Rakudo patches
 E: tene@allalone.org
 
+N: Timothy Totten
+U: novus
+D: Temporal (DateTime/Date) modifications
+E: supernovus@gmail.com
+W: http://huri.net/
+
 N: Tyler Curtis
 U: tcurtis
 D: $*ARGFILES
diff --git a/lib/DateTime/strftime.pm b/lib/DateTime/strftime.pm
index 677641a0c99..7986e302c74 100644
--- a/lib/DateTime/strftime.pm
+++ b/lib/DateTime/strftime.pm
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ module DateTime::strftime {
             '%' => { '%' },
             '3' => { (($dt.second % 1)*1000).fmt('%03d') },
             '6' => { (($dt.second % 1)*1000000).fmt('%06d') },
-            '9' => { (($dt.second % 1)*1000000000).fmt('%09d') }
+            '9' => { (($dt.second % 1)*1000000000).fmt('%09d') },
+            'z' => { $dt.timezone }
         ;
         my $result = '';
         while $format ~~ / ^ (<-['%']>*) '%' (.)(.*) $ / {