diff --git a/build/common.sh b/build/common.sh
index 4ca80ff071e..8517a7749fc 100755
--- a/build/common.sh
+++ b/build/common.sh
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ readonly REMOTE_OUTPUT_ROOT="/go/src/${KUBE_GO_PACKAGE}/_output"
 readonly REMOTE_OUTPUT_SUBPATH="${REMOTE_OUTPUT_ROOT}/dockerized"
 readonly REMOTE_OUTPUT_BINPATH="${REMOTE_OUTPUT_SUBPATH}/bin"
 
-readonly DOCKER_MOUNT_ARGS_BASE=(--volume "${OUTPUT_BINPATH}:${REMOTE_OUTPUT_BINPATH}")
+readonly DOCKER_MOUNT_ARGS_BASE=(
+  --volume "${OUTPUT_BINPATH}:${REMOTE_OUTPUT_BINPATH}"
+  --volume /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
+)
 # DOCKER_MOUNT_ARGS=("${DOCKER_MOUNT_ARGS_BASE[@]}" --volumes-from "${KUBE_BUILD_DATA_CONTAINER_NAME}")
 
 # We create a Docker data container to cache incremental build artifacts.  We
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh b/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh
index 37c89ddefcf..e7357420556 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ docker run --rm=true \
   -v "$(which docker)":/bin/docker \
   -v "${REPO_DIR}":/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes \
   -v "${KUBE_JUNIT_REPORT_DIR}":/workspace/artifacts \
+  -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
   --env REPO_DIR="${REPO_DIR}" \
   -i gcr.io/google_containers/kubekins-test:0.7 \
   bash -c "cd kubernetes && ./hack/jenkins/test-dockerized.sh"