diff --git a/podman.changes b/podman.changes
index 6fc6de6..f4dfea6 100644
--- a/podman.changes
+++ b/podman.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 26 14:08:32 UTC 2020 - Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>
+
+- add dependency to timezone package or podman fails to build a 
+  container (bsc#1178122)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 30 14:07:34 UTC 2020 - rhafer@suse.com
 - Added patch varlink.patch to disable needless varlink code
diff --git a/podman.spec b/podman.spec
index 4338181..4ccc194 100644
--- a/podman.spec
+++ b/podman.spec
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ Requires:       runc >= 1.0.0~rc4
 Requires:       slirp4netns >= 0.4.0
 Requires:       catatonit
 Requires:       fuse-overlayfs
+Requires:       timezone
 Recommends:     %{name}-cni-config = %{version}
 Suggests:       katacontainers
 %{go_nostrip}