get timezone in a script?

Hi,

I am writing in inventory script,
and need to get the timezone in a shell.

In Solaris and HPUX it is environment variable TZ.
In Linux TZ exists, but is often not set.
There is a binary file /etc/localtime,
but how to get the timezone string out of it?

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Michael Tosch @ hp : com
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