diff --git a/setup/odoo b/setup/odoo
index b2a0e17ff83..2670299b150 100644
--- a/setup/odoo
+++ b/setup/odoo
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# set server timezone in UTC before time module imported
+__import__('os').environ['TZ'] = 'UTC'
 __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace('odoo.addons')
 import odoo