diff --git a/R/NcDataReader.R b/R/NcDataReader.R
index 82131288a7e8b53d1edb9fc6467fd8a594e3b631..cba05fac8a5f721eb41c209437d5900722acb297 100644
--- a/R/NcDataReader.R
+++ b/R/NcDataReader.R
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ NcDataReader <- function(file_path = NULL, file_object = NULL,
           units <- 'days'
         }
 
-        new_array <- rep(as.POSIXct(parts[2]), length(result)) + 
+        new_array <- rep(as.POSIXct(parts[2], tz = 'UTC'), length(result)) + 
                      as.difftime(result[], units = units)
         #new_array <- seq(as.POSIXct(parts[2]), 
         #                  length = max(result, na.rm = TRUE) + 1, 
diff --git a/R/Start.R b/R/Start.R
index c04894aa7aeb29ff89e939e4788cacd49d757c11..b23e0ebb82987abbaa6d968c33878198f68ff88f 100644
--- a/R/Start.R
+++ b/R/Start.R
@@ -1330,11 +1330,19 @@ Start <- function(..., # dim = indices/selectors,
                                                                c(list(x = picked_common_vars[[var_to_read]]), 
                                                                  var_store_indices, 
                                                                  list(value = var_values)))
+                  # Turn time zone back to UTC if this var_to_read is 'time'
+                  if (all(class(picked_common_vars[[var_to_read]]) == c('POSIXct', 'POSIXt'))) {
+                    attr(picked_common_vars[[var_to_read]], "tzone") <- 'UTC'
+                  }
                 } else {
                   picked_vars[[i]][[var_to_read]] <- do.call('[<-', 
                                                              c(list(x = picked_vars[[i]][[var_to_read]]), 
                                                                var_store_indices, 
                                                                list(value = var_values)))
+                  # Turn time zone back to UTC if this var_to_read is 'time'
+                  if (all(class(picked_vars[[i]][[var_to_read]]) == c('POSIXct', 'POSIXt'))) {
+                    attr(picked_vars[[i]][[var_to_read]], "tzone") <- 'UTC'
+                  }
                 }
                 if (var_to_read %in% names(first_found_file)) {
                   first_found_file[var_to_read] <- TRUE
diff --git a/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_2_exp_obs_attr.R b/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_2_exp_obs_attr.R
index 5a906f3ac2f4eecfb71eab374537290ee184c228..acff7c9167d19b7bee40e96913859c0982c310b3 100644
--- a/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_2_exp_obs_attr.R
+++ b/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_2_exp_obs_attr.R
@@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ print(attr(exp, 'Variables')$common$time)
 #[11] "2007-03-16 13:14:44 CET" "2008-03-16 13:14:44 CET"
 
 print(attr(obs, 'Variables')$common$time)
-# [1] "2005-01-31 18:00:00 CET"  "2006-01-31 18:00:00 CET" 
-# [3] "2007-01-31 18:00:00 CET"  "2008-01-31 18:00:00 CET" 
-# [5] "2005-02-28 18:00:00 CET"  "2006-02-28 18:00:00 CET" 
-# [7] "2007-02-28 18:00:00 CET"  "2008-02-29 18:00:00 CET" 
-# [9] "2005-03-31 19:00:00 CEST" "2006-03-31 19:00:00 CEST"
-#[11] "2007-03-31 19:00:00 CEST" "2008-03-31 19:00:00 CEST"
+# [1] "2005-01-31 18:00:00 UTC" "2006-01-31 18:00:00 UTC"
+# [3] "2007-01-31 18:00:00 UTC" "2008-01-31 18:00:00 UTC"
+# [5] "2005-02-28 18:00:00 UTC" "2006-02-28 18:00:00 UTC"
+# [7] "2007-02-28 18:00:00 UTC" "2008-02-29 18:00:00 UTC"
+# [9] "2005-03-31 18:00:00 UTC" "2006-03-31 18:00:00 UTC"
+#[11] "2007-03-31 18:00:00 UTC" "2008-03-31 18:00:00 UTC"
 
 ##-----lat-----
 print(attr(exp, 'Variables')$common$lat[1:3])
diff --git a/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_3_attr_loadin.R b/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_3_attr_loadin.R
index 3dca648fa83851059679bb8356b28d7355e70c84..a918e167c6f23092d8d27690613061e98e7affd5 100644
--- a/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_3_attr_loadin.R
+++ b/inst/doc/usecase/ex1_3_attr_loadin.R
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ erai[1, 1, 2, 31, 1, 1]  # 1st March also, since June only has 30 days
 
  dates <- attr(system4, 'Variables')$common$time
  dates[2, 31]
-#[1] "1994-07-01 CEST"
+#[1] "1994-07-01 UTC"
  dates[2, 31] <- NA  # Jun
  dates[5, 31] <- NA  # Sep
  dates[7, 31] <- NA  # Nov
@@ -141,4 +141,9 @@ erai[1, 1, 2, , 1, 1] # June
 # [9] 270.5395 272.0379 272.5489 271.1494 270.7764 270.5678 272.0331 273.7856
 #[17] 273.9849 274.5904 273.4369 273.8404 274.4068 274.2292 274.7375 275.5104
 #[25] 275.4324 274.9408 274.8679 276.5602 275.0995 274.6409       NA
+erai[1, 1, 5, , 1, 1] # Sep
+# [1] 270.0656 270.7113 268.4678 271.6489 271.2354 269.7831 269.8045 268.7994
+# [9] 266.3092 262.2734 265.0124 261.8378 265.3950 257.1690 255.8402 264.8826
+#[17] 267.8663 266.6875 262.5502 258.5476 258.9617 263.6396 257.1111 264.8644
+#[25] 261.0085 256.7690 256.5811 256.4331 256.1260 256.4716       NA
 #------------------------------