What’s the correct way to convert `Dates.unix2datetime(mtime(fpath))` to a datetim

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What’s the correct way to convert Dates.unix2datetime(mtime(fpath)) to a datetime with the correct time zone for my system? I get a time 5 hours in the future, so I assume it’s returning UTC.


julia> Dates.unix2datetime(mtime(fpath))
2021-01-31T22:46:14.370

julia> Dates.now()
2021-01-31T17:46:23.646

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Posting the answer from the slack discussion.

For this particular case, there was a requirement to only use functions in Base (which doesn’t include the Dates stdlib, or the TimeZones package)

Using functions only in Base:

julia> Base.Libc.strftime("%FT%R%Z", mtime(fpath))
"2021-02-01T01:15CET"
julia> Base.Libc.strftime("%FT%R%z", mtime(fpath))
"2021-02-01T01:15+0100"
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