# Timezone issue, ensure consistency?

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/timezone-issue-ensure-consistency/170015>\
**Category:** Off-Topic\
**Created:** [August 5, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/timezone-issue-ensure-consistency/170015 "2026-08-05T11:15:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![sihui](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/sihui/32/55674_2.png) [@sihui](https://community.openhab.org/u/sihui)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/timezone-issue-ensure-consistency/170015/2 "2026-08-05T11:20:30Z")

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> [@ccrause](#):
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> complex issue

> [@Time-based rules not working on 5.0.1](https://community.openhab.org/t/time-based-rules-not-working-on-5-0-1/166409/18):
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> sudo nano /etc/default/openhab Replace “nano” with your preferred text editor. Since this was posted I think we found the culprit. If you did not edit /boot/openhabian.conf before the first time you booted as the instructions describe, you didn’t set the timezones for openHABian. Consequently the default timezones was used. And that file gets copied to /etc/openhabian.conf. Every time openhabian-config runs it resets everything based on /etc/openhabian.conf. To prevent/etc/default/openHAB fro…

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