diff --git a/libc/tzcode/localtime.c b/libc/tzcode/localtime.c
index 29f605c..bf09c5e 100644
--- a/libc/tzcode/localtime.c
+++ b/libc/tzcode/localtime.c
@@ -2253,11 +2253,14 @@
 }
 
 static int __bionic_open_tzdata(const char* olson_id, int* data_size) {
-  int fd = __bionic_open_tzdata_path("ANDROID_ROOT", "/usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata", olson_id, data_size);
-  if (fd == -2) {
-    // The first thing that 'recovery' does is try to format the current time. It doesn't have
-    // any tzdata available, so we must not abort here --- doing so breaks the recovery image!
-    fprintf(stderr, "%s: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for %s!\n", __FUNCTION__, olson_id);
+  int fd = __bionic_open_tzdata_path("ANDROID_DATA", "/misc/zoneinfo/current/tzdata", olson_id, data_size);
+  if (fd < 0) {
+    fd = __bionic_open_tzdata_path("ANDROID_ROOT", "/usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata", olson_id, data_size);
+    if (fd == -2) {
+      // The first thing that 'recovery' does is try to format the current time. It doesn't have
+      // any tzdata available, so we must not abort here --- doing so breaks the recovery image!
+      fprintf(stderr, "%s: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for %s!\n", __FUNCTION__, olson_id);
+    }
   }
   return fd;
 }