diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6c1a2db32..6ae407ba9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ For full details, see the git log at:
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2020-06-13:
+- Fixed a timezone name determination bug on FreeBSD that caused the
+  output from `LC_ALL=C printf '%T' now` to print the wrong time zone name.
+
 2020-06-11:
 
 - Fixed a bug that caused running 'builtin -d' on a special builtin to
diff --git a/src/lib/libast/tm/tminit.c b/src/lib/libast/tm/tminit.c
index 191886195..c29e271a4 100644
--- a/src/lib/libast/tm/tminit.c
+++ b/src/lib/libast/tm/tminit.c
@@ -247,10 +247,6 @@ tmlocal(void)
 		else if (e)
 			environ[0] = e;
 	}
-#endif
-#if _dat_tzname
-	local.standard = strdup(tzname[0]);
-	local.daylight = strdup(tzname[1]);
 #endif
 	tmlocale();
 
@@ -296,10 +292,8 @@ tmlocal(void)
 		 * POSIX
 		 */
 
-		if (!local.standard)
-			local.standard = strdup(tzname[0]);
-		if (!local.daylight)
-			local.daylight = strdup(tzname[1]);
+		local.standard = strdup(tzname[0]);
+		local.daylight = strdup(tzname[1]);
 	}
 	else
 #endif