diff --git a/core/glibc/PKGBUILD b/core/glibc/PKGBUILD
index 90651edbc..cfc3fc9c6 100644
--- a/core/glibc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/glibc/PKGBUILD
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ noautobuild=1
 
 pkgname=glibc
 pkgver=2.19
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=5
 pkgdesc="GNU C Library"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc"
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ install=glibc.install
 source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz{,.sig}
         glibc-2.19-xattr_header.patch
         glibc-2.19-fix-sign-in-bsloww1-input.patch
+        glibc-2.19-tzselect-default.patch
         local-soname-hack.diff
         locale.gen.txt
         locale-gen)
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ md5sums=('e26b8cc666b162f999404b03970f14e4'
          'SKIP'
          '39a4876837789e07746f1d84cd8cb46a'
          '755a1a9d7844a5e338eddaa9a5d974cd'
+         'c772dc99ddd8032ecbf43884ae0cf42e'
          '905370139382428ef2b97b247c0970bf'
          '07ac979b6ab5eeb778d55f041529d623'
          '476e9113489f93b348b21e144b6a8fcf')
@@ -52,6 +54,9 @@ prepare() {
   # fix issues in sin/cos slow path calculation - commit ffe768a9
   patch -p1 -i $srcdir/glibc-2.19-fix-sign-in-bsloww1-input.patch
 
+  # fix tzselect with missing TZDIR - commit 893b4f37/c72399fb
+  patch -p1 -i $srcdir/glibc-2.19-tzselect-default.patch
+
   # ALARM: patch for hard-float ld-linux soname
   if [[ $CARCH == "armv6h" || $CARCH == "armv7h" ]]; then
     patch -p1 -i ${srcdir}/local-soname-hack.diff
diff --git a/core/glibc/glibc-2.19-tzselect-default.patch b/core/glibc/glibc-2.19-tzselect-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ccafb0b60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/glibc/glibc-2.19-tzselect-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/timezone/Makefile b/timezone/Makefile
+index 998cd14..d5f647c 100644
+--- a/timezone/Makefile
++++ b/timezone/Makefile
+@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ $(testdata)/Asia/Tokyo: asia $(zic-deps)
+ 
+ $(objpfx)tzselect: tzselect.ksh $(common-objpfx)config.make
+ 	sed -e 's|/bin/bash|$(KSH)|g' \
+-	    -e '/TZDIR=/s|\$$(pwd)|$(zonedir)|' \
++	    -e 's|TZDIR=[^}]*|TZDIR=$(zonedir)|' \
+ 	    -e '/TZVERSION=/s|see_Makefile|"$(version)"|' \
+ 	    -e '/PKGVERSION=/s|=.*|="$(PKGVERSION)"|' \
+ 	    -e '/REPORT_BUGS_TO=/s|=.*|="$(REPORT_BUGS_TO)"|' \