Setting time zones via zope because Plone time zone doesn't work

here is the latest thread on this

From what I understand, the buildout recreate the parts where are stored the zope.conf file(s) where the TZ environment zone is set for the Zope(s) process(es)
You can check immediately after the buildout in the zope.conf file(s) if the TZ environment variable is set.
grep TZ zope.conf
TZ UTC