diff --git a/recipes/default.rb b/recipes/default.rb
index 60b688d51a7dd5eb03eb1721d5af85e962b0b480..51e3109c1f94b621d9c9116a564de71d6796e475 100644
--- a/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/recipes/default.rb
@@ -97,6 +97,18 @@ replace_or_add 'Increase post_max_size limit - CLI' do
 	line 'post_max_size = 10M'
 end
 
+replace_or_add 'Set date.timezone' do
+	path '/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini'
+	pattern 'date.timezone =.*'
+	line 'date.timezone = Europe/Berlin'
+end
+
+replace_or_add 'date.timezone - CLI' do
+	path '/etc/php5/cli/php.ini'
+	pattern 'date.timezone =.*'
+	line 'date.timezone = Europe/Berlin'
+end
+
 ################################
 ### Setup Apache Environment ###
 ################################