I have a screenshot of my iPhone which shows that it was taken at 11:42 a.m. When I look at the file in Finder, it shows that it was taken at 11:42 a.m. on Feb 11 You can see a screenshot here: http://images.luo.ma/skitch/iPhonePhotos-1142am-20150220-231455.jpg When I use `mdls -raw -name kMDItemContentCreationDate test.png` (a Mac command to get the Creation Date), I get 2015-02-11 16:42:30 +0000 as the answer. This is, I believe, UTC. So I need to convert that to local (US/Eastern) time. I'm not sure how to do that, so heres what I did 1) Load the appropriate module > zmodload zsh/datetime 2) get the Unix EPOCH time from the date/time stamp we have: > strftime -r "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000" "2015-02-11 16:42:30 +0000" 1423690950 3) Convert '1423690950' to US/Eastern time: > strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "1423690950" 2015-02-11 16:42:30 But that's still giving me '16' as the hour. It should be 11, shouldn't it? 4) Try again, this time making sure that I define the time zone: > TZ=US/Eastern strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "1423690950" 2015-02-11 16:42:30 Same time. OK, so I'm obviously missing something. I checked '1423690950' on various online "Unix time" converters and they confirm that it's 16:42 my time, but since I know the picture was taken at 11:42, I'm wondering what I did wrong. Tj