diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a95ac67b1..54c8766fb 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #8671: :confval:`highlight_options` is not working
 * #8341: C, fix intersphinx lookup types for names in declarations.
 * C, C++: in general fix intersphinx and role lookup types.
+* #8683: :confval:`html_last_updated_fmt` does not support UTC offset (%z)
 
 Testing
 --------
diff --git a/sphinx/util/i18n.py b/sphinx/util/i18n.py
index e149976ef..05d476ddd 100644
--- a/sphinx/util/i18n.py
+++ b/sphinx/util/i18n.py
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ date_format_mappings = {
     '%y':  'YY',      # Year without century as a zero-padded decimal number.
     '%Y':  'yyyy',    # Year with century as a decimal number.
     '%Z':  'zzzz',    # Time zone name (no characters if no time zone exists).
+    '%z':  'ZZZ',     # UTC offset in the form ±HHMM[SS[.ffffff]]
+                      # (empty string if the object is naive).
     '%%':  '%',
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/test_util_i18n.py b/tests/test_util_i18n.py
index f15f3cb95..d6f631175 100644
--- a/tests/test_util_i18n.py
+++ b/tests/test_util_i18n.py
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ def test_format_date():
     assert i18n.format_date(format, date=datet) == 'Feb 7, 2016, 5:11:17 AM'
     assert i18n.format_date(format, date=date) == 'Feb 7, 2016'
 
+    # timezone
+    format = '%z'
+    assert i18n.format_date(format, date=datet) == '+0000'
+
 
 @pytest.mark.xfail(os.name != 'posix', reason="Path separators don't match on windows")
 def test_get_filename_for_language(app):