diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/Preference.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/Preference.php
index ef222abfb..792abe9de 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/Preference.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/Preference.php
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ class Application_Model_Preference
         Application_Model_Preference::SetValue("timezone", $timezone);
         date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
         $md = array("timezone" => $timezone);
-        RabbitMq::SendMessageToPypo("update_timezone", $md);
     }
     
     public static function GetTimezone(){
diff --git a/python_apps/pypo/pypofetch.py b/python_apps/pypo/pypofetch.py
index ca7f21cea..1a927b969 100755
--- a/python_apps/pypo/pypofetch.py
+++ b/python_apps/pypo/pypofetch.py
@@ -102,10 +102,6 @@ class PypoFetch(Thread):
         if(command == 'update_schedule'):
             self.schedule_data  = m['schedule']
             self.process_schedule(self.schedule_data, "scheduler", False)
-        elif (command == 'update_timezone'):
-            logger.info("Setting timezone to %s", m['timezone'])
-            os.environ['TZ'] = m['timezone']
-            time.tzset()
         elif (command == 'update_stream_setting'):
             logger.info("Updating stream setting: %s", m['setting'])
             self.regenerateLiquidsoapConf(m['setting'])
diff --git a/python_apps/pypo/pypopush.py b/python_apps/pypo/pypopush.py
index 6f7e71722..29f29c088 100755
--- a/python_apps/pypo/pypopush.py
+++ b/python_apps/pypo/pypopush.py
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class PypoPush(Thread):
             #mktime takes a time_struct and returns a floating point
             #gmtime Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a struct_time in UTC
             #mktime: expresses the time in local time, not UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with time().
-            epoch_start = calendar.timegm(time.gmtime(time.mktime(time.strptime(pkey, '%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'))))
+            epoch_start = calendar.timegm(time.strptime(pkey, '%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'))
 
             #Return the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
             epoch_now = time.time()