diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index 49cee8ffd22cfac91ddba7b1719605d33222a9cb..f46251f1f93f34e4dbd04a6cbff55e7f55a94756 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ machine:
 dependencies:
   pre:
     - pip install awscli==1.7.3
+database:
+  post:
+    - mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u ubuntu mysql
 test:
   override:
     # 0) runs unit tests w/ H2 local DB. Runs against Mongo, H2, Postgres, MySQL test datasets