title: Drupal timezone information
body: <p>In my drupal installation I can get the offset from UTC in seconds to the timezone I specified in the admin panel using </p>
  
  <pre><code>variable_get('date_default_timezone', 0)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, now that we have daylight-saving-time, the time I get is always off by one hour. Is there a way to retrieve the actual timezone string from Drupal, as "Europe/Berlin" for example?</p>
  
  <p>The reason is, that I have to use this with Zend Framework's Zend_Date, but Drupal does not set the PHP default timezone, as</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo date_default_timezone_get();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>gives me System/Localtime.</p>