diff --git a/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec b/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
index cea95d5..24a4634 100644
--- a/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
+++ b/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
@@ -748,8 +748,10 @@ Provides: java-fonts%{?1} = %{epoch}:%{version}
 Requires: rootcerts-java
 # Require jpackage-utils for ownership of /usr/lib/jvm/
 Requires: jpackage-utils
+%if %{with timezone-java}
 # Require zoneinfo data provided by tzdata-java subpackage.
 Requires: timezone-java >= 2015d
+%endif
 # libsctp.so.1 is being `dlopen`ed on demand
 Requires: lksctp-tools
 # tool to copy jdk's configs - should be Recommends only, but then only dnf/yum eforce it, not rpm transaction and so no configs are persisted when pure rpm -u is run. I t may be consiedered as regression
@@ -1051,7 +1053,9 @@ BuildRequires: java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
 %ifnarch %{jit_arches}
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libffi)
 %endif
+%if %{with timezone-java}
 BuildRequires: timezone-java >= 2015d
+%endif
 BuildRequires: patch >= 2.7.5
 # Earlier versions have a bug in tree vectorization on PPC
 BuildRequires: gcc >= 4.8.3-8
@@ -1526,9 +1530,11 @@ export JAVA_HOME=$(pwd)/%{buildoutputdir $suffix}/images/%{j2sdkimage}
 # Install nss.cfg right away as we will be using the JRE above
 install -m 644 nss.cfg $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/
 
+%if %{with timezone-java}
 # Use system-wide tzdata
 #rm $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
 #ln -s %{_datadir}/javazi-1.8/tzdb.dat $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
+%endif
 
 #build cycles
 done