diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1c9e1d8b2d2d8bfe8301bcb778acb4f1e31148e6..6c41991a8745df13ec99683d37a6539b3888d72e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added ###
 
+* Add TimeZone class and parse the server's time zone in the Info response.
+
 ### Changed ###
 
 * Set PyYAML dependency back to PyYaml>=5.4.1 (from 6.0) for better
diff --git a/src/caosdb/common/models.py b/src/caosdb/common/models.py
index f974060f4727e575a94a3afcdd2f86520e6123a9..7000ede917995c6c01b78a822c2d39ac626fcc23 100644
--- a/src/caosdb/common/models.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/common/models.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ from caosdb.common.datatype import (BOOLEAN, DATETIME, DOUBLE, INTEGER, TEXT,
                                     is_list_datatype, is_reference)
 from caosdb.common.state import State
 from caosdb.common.utils import uuid, xml2str
+from caosdb.common.timezone import TimeZone
 from caosdb.common.versioning import Version
 from caosdb.configuration import get_config
 from caosdb.connection.connection import get_connection
@@ -4327,6 +4328,8 @@ class Info():
 
             if isinstance(m, UserInfo):
                 self.user_info = m
+            elif isinstance(m, TimeZone):
+                self.time_zone = m
             else:
                 self.messages.append(m)
 
@@ -4460,6 +4463,9 @@ def _parse_single_xml_element(elem):
         return Permissions(xml=elem)
     elif elem.tag == "UserInfo":
         return UserInfo(xml=elem)
+    elif elem.tag == "TimeZone":
+        return TimeZone(zone_id=elem.get("id"), offset=elem.get("offset"),
+                        display_name=elem.text.strip())
     else:
         return Message(type=elem.tag, code=elem.get(
             "code"), description=elem.get("description"), body=elem.text)
diff --git a/src/caosdb/common/timezone.py b/src/caosdb/common/timezone.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2bd3d3d4d739118e160f7b3a35757fbb0afe70cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/caosdb/common/timezone.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+class TimeZone():
+    """
+    TimeZone, e.g. CEST, Europe/Berlin, UTC+4.
+
+
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    zone_id : string
+        ID of the time zone.
+    offset : int
+        Offset to UTC in seconds.
+    display_name : string
+        A human-friendly name of the time zone:
+    """
+    def __init__(self, zone_id, offset, display_name):
+        self.zone_id = zone_id
+        self.offset = offset
+        self.display_name = display_name