diff --git a/src/etc/config.xml.sample b/src/etc/config.xml.sample
index 8df62138f..c87733c79 100644
--- a/src/etc/config.xml.sample
+++ b/src/etc/config.xml.sample
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
     </user>
     <nextuid>2000</nextuid>
     <nextgid>2000</nextgid>
-    <timezone>Europe/Amsterdam</timezone>
+    <timezone>Etc/UTC</timezone>
     <time-update-interval>300</time-update-interval>
     <timeservers>0.nl.pool.ntp.org</timeservers>
     <webgui>