diff --git a/meta-facebook/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bbappend b/meta-facebook/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bbappend
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+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
+
+DEFAULT_TIMEZONE = "PST8PDT"