1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d7a92dcf1de..e8597804995 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -481,7 +481,11 @@
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <runOrder>random</runOrder>
-          <argLine>-Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:MaxPermSize=128m</argLine>
+          <!--
+          user.locale is overridden: timezone is forced to an arbitrary value (GMT-4) to be sure that
+          tests do not depend on developers timezone
+          -->
+          <argLine>-Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Duser.locale=EST5EDT</argLine>
           <redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>
           <systemPropertyVariables>
             <java.io.tmpdir>${project.build.directory}</java.io.tmpdir>