diff --git a/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb b/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb
index a1f2407c..6ad29942 100644
--- a/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb
+++ b/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: post
 title:  "Welcome to Jekyll!"
-date:   <%= Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') %>
+date:   <%= Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z') %>
 categories: jekyll update
 ---
 You’ll find this post in your `_posts` directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run `jekyll serve`, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.