diff --git a/pelican/utils.py b/pelican/utils.py
index 2fb76670..cd7507ee 100644
--- a/pelican/utils.py
+++ b/pelican/utils.py
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 import re
 import os
 import shutil
+import time
+import calendar
+import pytz
 from datetime import datetime
 from codecs import open as _open
 from itertools import groupby
@@ -222,3 +225,13 @@ def files_changed(path, extensions):
         LAST_MTIME = mtime
         return True
     return False
+
+def set_date_tzinfo(d, tz_name=None):
+    """ Date without tzinfo shoudbe utc.
+    This function set the right tz to date that aren't utc and don't have tzinfo
+    """
+    if tz_name is not None:
+        tz = pytz.timezone(tz_name)
+        return tz.localize(d)
+    else:
+        return d
diff --git a/pelican/writers.py b/pelican/writers.py
index 4685cff9..4dfc1ba6 100644
--- a/pelican/writers.py
+++ b/pelican/writers.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from functools import partial
 import locale
 
 from feedgenerator import Atom1Feed, Rss201rev2Feed
-from pelican.utils import get_relative_path
+from pelican.utils import get_relative_path, set_date_tzinfo
 from pelican.paginator import Paginator
 from pelican.log import *
 
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ class Writer(object):
             description=item.content,
             categories=item.tags if hasattr(item, 'tags') else None,
             author_name=getattr(item, 'author', 'John Doe'),
-            pubdate=item.date)
+            pubdate=set_date_tzinfo(item.date, 
+                                    self.settings.get('TIMEZONE', None)))
 
     def write_feed(self, elements, context, filename=None, feed_type='atom'):
         """Generate a feed with the list of articles provided
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4574fdd6..fed1ba08 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import sys
 
 VERSION = "2.7.2" # find a better way to do so.
 
-requires = ['feedgenerator', 'jinja2', 'pygments', 'docutils']
+requires = ['feedgenerator', 'jinja2', 'pygments', 'docutils', 'pytz']
 if sys.version_info < (2,7):
     requires.append('argparse')
 
diff --git a/tools/pelican-quickstart b/tools/pelican-quickstart
index fe7bb31a..e1fb4eff 100755
--- a/tools/pelican-quickstart
+++ b/tools/pelican-quickstart
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ TEMPLATES={
 PELICAN=$pelican
 PELICANOPTS=$pelicanopts
 
-BASEDIR=$basedir
+BASEDIR=$$(PWD)
 INPUTDIR=$$(BASEDIR)/src
 OUTPUTDIR=$$(BASEDIR)/output
 CONFFILE=$$(BASEDIR)/pelican.conf.py
@@ -36,20 +36,21 @@ help:
 \t@echo '                                                                      '
 
 
-html: $$(OUTPUTDIR)/index.html
+html: clean $$(OUTPUTDIR)/index.html
 \t@echo 'Done'
 
 $$(OUTPUTDIR)/%.html:
 \t$$(PELICAN) $$(INPUTDIR) -o $$(OUTPUTDIR) -s $$(CONFFILE)
 
 clean:
-\trm -r $$(OUTPUTDIR)/*
+\trm -fr $$(OUTPUTDIR)
+\tmkdir $$(OUTPUTDIR)
 
 dropbox_upload: $$(OUTPUTDIR)/index.html
 \tcp -r $$(OUTPUTDIR)/* $$(DROPBOX_DIR)
 
 ssh_upload: $$(OUTPUTDIR)/index.html
-\tscp -rv $$(OUTPUTDIR)/* $$(SSH_USER)@$$(SSH_HOST)/$$(SSH_TARGET_DIR)
+\tscp -r $$(OUTPUTDIR)/* $$(SSH_USER)@$$(SSH_HOST):$$(SSH_TARGET_DIR)
 
 ftp_upload: $$(OUTPUTDIR)/index.html
 \tlftp ftp://$$(FTP_USER)@$$(FTP_HOST) -e "mirror -R $$(OUTPUT_DIR)/* $$(FTP_TARGET_DIR) ; quit"
@@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ AUTHOR = u"$author"
 SITENAME = u"$sitename"
 SITEURL = '/'
 
+TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Paris'
+
 DEFAULT_LANG='$lang'
 
 # Blogroll