diff --git a/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg b/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg
index 9d61b0df68..fa289c277c 100644
--- a/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg
+++ b/packaging/cfg/taos.cfg
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@
 # default system charset
 # charset               UTF-8
 
+# system time zone
+# timezone              Asia/Shanghai (CST, +0800)
+
 # enable/disable commit log
 # clog                  1