diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 93fb144225a9da226adf2506511482534c3e48b8..5f3289b5b958c22da60799bc4c413e1459b55a22 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ docker_centos_run:
        - ./build/openfpm_numerics/src/numerics
        - ./openfpm_numerics/test
    script:
+    - apt-get update
+    - DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get -y install tzdata
     - apt-get -y install cmake wget git g++ gfortran python2  python-is-python3
     - export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
     - ./run.sh $CI_PROJECT_DIR unused 1 pdata 0 $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME