leaving blocker flag on this one as it's been fixed in osp7
patch is merged in stable/liberty and built into openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0.8.8-2.el7ost
Looking at 9.0 deployment from 02 AUG 16 deployment Environment: openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-2.0.0-24.el7ost.noarch openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-kilo-0.8.14-9.el7ost.noarch openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-liberty-2.0.0-24.el7ost.noarch The default timezone of UTC has been verified in the templates files. I see this now available. I also verified the nodes were deployed with UTC with my deployment. [heat-admin@overcloud-controller-0 ~]$ date Thu Aug 4 19:29:07 UTC 2016