#render

Limits on Regional Time Zone Support in Blender’s Render File Path Placeholders

Blender’s Render Properties panel allows the use of strftime‑style placeholders such as %Y , %m , %d , %H , %M , and %S in the output file path. When a render is executed, these tokens are expanded by the internal C library call to localtime() , which reflects the host machine’s configured time zone. Because the expansion is tied directly to the system clock