diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
index a115655..8966d2f 100644
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+TIMEZONE='America/Los_Angeles'
+if [ ! -z "$TZ" ]; then
+  TIMEZONE="$TZ"
+fi
+
 HUE_HOME="/opt/hue/"
 HUE_CONFIG_FILE="$HUE_HOME/desktop/conf/pseudo-distributed.ini"
 APP_BLACKLIST="search,security,oozie,jobbrowser,pig,beeswax,search,zookeeper,impala,rdbms,spark,metastore,hbase,sqoop,jobsub,about"
 
 sed -i "s#.*blacklist.*#  app_blacklist=$APP_BLACKLIST#g" $HUE_CONFIG_FILE
 sed -i "s#.*webhdfs_url.*#  webhdfs_url=http://$NAMENODE_HOST:50070/webhdfs/v1#g" $HUE_CONFIG_FILE
+sed -i "s#America/Los_Angeles#$TIMEZONE#g" $HUE_CONFIG_FILE
 
 exec $@