diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index f1ae827a..4eec111b 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ Setting name (default value)                        what does it do?
                                                     pelican will copy the 'images' folder to the
                                                     output folder.
 `TIMEZONE`                                          The timezone used in the date information, to
-                                                    generate atom and rss feeds.
+                                                    generate atom and rss feeds. See the "timezone"
+                                                    section below for more info.
 ================================================    =====================================================
 
 .. [1] Default is the system locale. Default is to delete the output directory.
diff --git a/samples/pelican.conf.py b/samples/pelican.conf.py
index 2796d561..fb3b091b 100755
--- a/samples/pelican.conf.py
+++ b/samples/pelican.conf.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 AUTHOR = u'Alexis Métaireau'
 SITENAME = u"Alexis' log"
 SITEURL = 'http://blog.notmyidea.org'
+TIMEZONE = "Europe/Paris"
 
 GITHUB_URL = 'http://github.com/ametaireau/'
 DISQUS_SITENAME = "blog-notmyidea"
@@ -36,3 +37,4 @@ FILES_TO_COPY = (('extra/robots.txt', 'robots.txt'),)
 # foobar will not be used, because it's not in caps. All configuration keys
 # have to be in caps
 foobar = "barbaz"
+