diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/default.nix
index 955daa0ad9fc..9e74643e161f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, bison, glibc, bash, coreutils, makeWrapper}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, bison, glibc, bash, coreutils, makeWrapper, tzdata}:
 
 let
   loader386 = "${glibc}/lib/ld-linux.so.2";
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sed -i 's,/lib/ld-linux.so.2,${loader386},' src/cmd/8l/asm.c
     sed -i 's,/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,${loaderAmd64},' src/cmd/6l/asm.c
     sed -i 's,/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.3,${loaderArm},' src/cmd/5l/asm.c
-    sed -i 's,/usr/share/zoneinfo/,${glibc}/share/zoneinfo/,' src/pkg/time/zoneinfo_unix.go
+    sed -i 's,/usr/share/zoneinfo/,${tzdata}/share/zoneinfo/,' src/pkg/time/zoneinfo_unix.go
 
     #sed -i -e 's,/bin/cat,${coreutils}/bin/cat,' \
     #  -e 's,/bin/echo,${coreutils}/bin/echo,' \