diff --git a/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py b/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py
index c6f8b40069..208220e23a 100644
--- a/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py
+++ b/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py
@@ -355,8 +355,7 @@ LOCALE_PATHS = (
     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale/'),
 )
 
-
-TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
+TIME_ZONE = CONFIG.get('timezone', 'UTC')
 
 USE_I18N = True
 
diff --git a/InvenTree/config_template.yaml b/InvenTree/config_template.yaml
index 0a60e205a1..94ec36bec7 100644
--- a/InvenTree/config_template.yaml
+++ b/InvenTree/config_template.yaml
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ database:
 # Select default system language (default is 'en-us')
 language: en-us
 
+# System time-zone (default is UTC)
+# Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
+# Select an option from the "TZ database name" column
+timezone: UTC
+
 # Set debug to False to run in production mode
 debug: True