diff --git a/all-spark-notebook/Dockerfile b/all-spark-notebook/Dockerfile
index c44ec11f66..399aa9b8d0 100644
--- a/all-spark-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/all-spark-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ RUN fix-permissions $R_LIBS_USER
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     fonts-dejavu \
-    tzdata \
     gfortran \
     gcc && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
diff --git a/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile b/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile
index 33943699d6..a5bc02e2b4 100644
--- a/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/datascience-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     fonts-dejavu \
-    tzdata \
     gfortran \
     gcc && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
diff --git a/docs/using/selecting.md b/docs/using/selecting.md
index 9fa0ec80f7..e91cfc9c4f 100644
--- a/docs/using/selecting.md
+++ b/docs/using/selecting.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The Jupyter team maintains a set of Docker image definitions in the [https://git
 
 * Everything in `jupyter/base-notebook`
 * [Pandoc](http://pandoc.org) and [TeX Live](https://www.tug.org/texlive/) for notebook document conversion
-* [git](https://git-scm.com/), [emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/), [jed](https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/), [nano](https://www.nano-editor.org/), and unzip
+* [git](https://git-scm.com/), [emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/), [jed](https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/), [nano](https://www.nano-editor.org/), tzdata, and unzip
 
 ### jupyter/r-notebook
 
diff --git a/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile b/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile
index a41dddc7b1..8e3f48d8ef 100644
--- a/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq --no-install-recommends \
     texlive-latex-base \
     texlive-latex-extra \
     texlive-xetex \
+    tzdata \
     unzip \
     nano \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
diff --git a/r-notebook/Dockerfile b/r-notebook/Dockerfile
index be21b8ff3b..81833cd401 100644
--- a/r-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/r-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     fonts-dejavu \
-    tzdata \
     unixodbc \
     unixodbc-dev \
     r-cran-rodbc \