diff --git a/kdump-always-copy-timezone.patch b/kdump-always-copy-timezone.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4a68db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kdump-always-copy-timezone.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
+Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:40:13 +0100
+Subject: Always copy timezone data into kdumprd
+References: bsc#1081646
+Upstream: merged
+Git-commit: 58d5fa45ed8e7c12866765cadb520e92600c1d39
+
+Timezone data is not always copied automatically by dracut. In fact,
+the code which does that is SUSE-specific, see bsc#830060, or SUSE
+patch 0020-00warpclock-Set-correct-timezone.patch.
+
+Even with the above patch, localtime is not copied on s390(x).
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
+---
+ init/module-setup.sh |    2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/init/module-setup.sh
++++ b/init/module-setup.sh
+@@ -227,4 +227,6 @@ install() {
+     inst_multiple makedumpfile makedumpfile-R.pl kdumptool \
+ 	$KDUMP_REQUIRED_PROGRAMS
+     inst_simple /etc/resolv.conf
++    inst_simple /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
++    inst_simple /etc/localtime
+ }
diff --git a/kdump.changes b/kdump.changes
index ebfc1c0..d1316dd 100644
--- a/kdump.changes
+++ b/kdump.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 13 15:48:28 UTC 2018 - ptesarik@suse.com
+
+- kdump-always-copy-timezone.patch: Always copy timezone data into
+  kdumprd (bsc#1081646).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb 27 10:26:57 UTC 2018 - ptesarik@suse.com
 
diff --git a/kdump.spec b/kdump.spec
index 58f67e9..3efb1fb 100644
--- a/kdump.spec
+++ b/kdump.spec
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ Patch40:        %{name}-bootloader-filter-out-KDUMPTOOL_FLAGS.patch
 Patch41:        %{name}-always-kexec_load-if-kexec_file_load-fails.patch
 Patch42:        %{name}-nokaslr.patch
 Patch43:        %{name}-no-crashkernel-in-Xen-PV-DomU.patch
+Patch44:        %{name}-always-copy-timezone.patch
 BuildRequires:  asciidoc
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -195,6 +196,7 @@ cp %{S:1} tests/data/
 %patch41 -p1
 %patch42 -p1
 %patch43 -p1
+%patch44 -p1
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"