diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu20.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh b/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu20.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh
index 7b970285..16a624c3 100755
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu20.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu20.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ cp /custom-installation/confluent/bin/apiclient /target/opt/confluent/bin
 mount -o bind /dev /target/dev
 mount -o bind /proc /target/proc
 mount -o bind /sys /target/sys
+mount -o bind /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars
 if [ 1 = $updategrub ]; then
     chroot /target update-grub
 fi
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu22.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh b/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu22.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh
index 773bf8ad..d9730889 100755
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu22.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/ubuntu22.04/profiles/default/scripts/post.sh
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ cp /custom-installation/confluent/bin/apiclient /target/opt/confluent/bin
 mount -o bind /dev /target/dev
 mount -o bind /proc /target/proc
 mount -o bind /sys /target/sys
+mount -o bind /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars
 if [ 1 = $updategrub ]; then
     chroot /target update-grub
 fi
diff --git a/confluent_server/confluent/selfservice.py b/confluent_server/confluent/selfservice.py
index cd4180c7..3d7feebb 100644
--- a/confluent_server/confluent/selfservice.py
+++ b/confluent_server/confluent/selfservice.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import eventlet
 webclient = eventlet.import_patched('pyghmi.util.webclient')
 
 
-currtz = None
+currtz = 'UTC'
 keymap = 'us'
 currlocale = 'en_US.UTF-8'
 currtzvintage = None