diff --git a/.github/workflows/workflow-test.yml b/.github/workflows/workflow-test.yml
index 75290267..02af8330 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/workflow-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/workflow-test.yml
@@ -31,12 +31,6 @@ jobs:
           - name: Prepare locales
             shell: bash
             run: sudo locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 || echo windows
-          # - name: Prepare timezone
-          #  uses: szenius/set-timezone@v2.0
-          #  with:
-          #      timezoneLinux: Europe/Berlin
-          #      timezoneMacos: Europe/Berlin
-          #      timezoneWindows: W. Europe Standard Time
           - name: Print yadg version
             shell: bash
             run: yadg --version
diff --git a/tests/test_extract.py b/tests/test_extract.py
index d0231416..2529e1c7 100644
--- a/tests/test_extract.py
+++ b/tests/test_extract.py
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
 def test_yadg_extractors_extract_with_metadata(filetype, infile, datadir):
     os.chdir(datadir)
     outfile = f"{infile}.nc"
-    ret = extract(filetype=filetype, path=infile, locale="en_GB")
+    ret = extract(
+        filetype=filetype, path=infile, locale="en_GB", timezone="Europe/Berlin"
+    )
     # ret.to_netcdf(f"C:/Users/Kraus/Code/yadg/tests/test_extract/{outfile}", engine="h5netcdf")
     ref = datatree.open_datatree(outfile, engine="h5netcdf")
     compare_datatrees(ret, ref, thislevel=True, descend=True)
diff --git a/tests/test_yadg.py b/tests/test_yadg.py
index 8a4ea5d4..9b018deb 100644
--- a/tests/test_yadg.py
+++ b/tests/test_yadg.py
@@ -181,7 +181,17 @@ def test_yadg_preset_roundtrip_uts(datadir):
 )
 def test_yadg_extract_with_metadata(filetype, infile, datadir):
     os.chdir(datadir)
-    command = ["yadg", "extract", filetype, infile, "test.nc", "--locale", "en_GB"]
+    command = [
+        "yadg",
+        "extract",
+        filetype,
+        infile,
+        "test.nc",
+        "--locale",
+        "en_GB",
+        "--timezone",
+        "Europe/Berlin",
+    ]
     subprocess.run(command, check=True)
     assert os.path.exists("test.nc")
     ret = open_datatree("test.nc", engine="h5netcdf")
@@ -201,7 +211,17 @@ def test_yadg_extract_with_metadata(filetype, infile, datadir):
 )
 def test_yadg_extract_meta_only(filetype, infile, flag, datadir):
     os.chdir(datadir)
-    command = ["yadg", "extract", filetype, infile, flag, "--locale", "en_GB"]
+    command = [
+        "yadg",
+        "extract",
+        filetype,
+        infile,
+        flag,
+        "--locale",
+        "en_GB",
+        "--timezone",
+        "Europe/Berlin",
+    ]
     subprocess.run(command, check=True)
     outfile = infile.split(".")[0] + ".json"
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)