2 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass b/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass
index dd11cd98d6..8a60deef3d 100644
--- a/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES = "1"
 
 export PYTHONHASHSEED = "0"
 export PERL_HASH_SEED = "0"
-export TZ = 'UTC'
 export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH ??= "1520598896"
 
 REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS ??= "1520598896"
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 60590e23cc..ec3207c7a0 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ export MAKE = "make"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
 EXTRA_OECONF = ""
 export LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8"
+export TZ = 'UTC'
 
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 # Patch handling.