diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index 70a3736cb..b811e9773 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -1021,10 +1021,6 @@ on post-fs-data
     # completed and apexd.status becomes "ready".
     exec_start apexd-snapshotde
 
-    # Check any timezone data in /data is newer than the copy in the time zone data
-    # module, delete if not.
-    exec - system system -- /system/bin/tzdatacheck /apex/com.android.tzdata/etc/tz /data/misc/zoneinfo
-
     # sys.memfd_use set to false by default, which keeps it disabled
     # until it is confirmed that apps and vendor processes don't make
     # IOCTLs on ashmem fds any more.