diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2adf4eb..8a30bcd 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 FROM phusion/baseimage:0.9.18
 MAINTAINER Nathan Hopkins <natehop@gmail.com>
 
+ENV TZ="America/Los_Angeles"
+
 #RUN echo deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main universe > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/universe.list
 RUN apt-get -y update\
  && apt-get -y upgrade
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 923a644..77d4ccf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ That's it, you're done ... almost.
 * [Carbon](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/carbon-daemons.html) - back-end
 * [Statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/wiki) - UDP based back-end proxy
 
+### Timezone support
+
+It is possible to set the timezone using the environment variable `'TZ'`.
+
+  -e TZ='America/Los_Angeles'
+
+This affects both the operating system itself and the Graphite web application.
+
 ### Mapped Ports
 
 Host | Container | Service
@@ -43,6 +51,7 @@ Host | Container | Service
 docker run -d\
  --name graphite\
  --restart=always\
+ -e TZ="America/Los_Angeles"
  -p 80:80\
  -p 2003-2004:2003-2004\
  -p 2023-2024:2023-2024\
diff --git a/daemons/graphite.sh b/daemons/graphite.sh
index fc1f87b..d52851f 100755
--- a/daemons/graphite.sh
+++ b/daemons/graphite.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-/usr/bin/python /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false host=127.0.0.1 port=8080
+# Set timezone for Graphite-Web
+sed -i "s~#\?TIME_ZONE = '.*'~TIME_ZONE = '${TZ}'~" /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/local_settings.py
 
+/usr/bin/python /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false host=127.0.0.1 port=8080
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