diff --git a/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon.bb b/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon.bb
index f1c7c30..6cfc12a 100644
--- a/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon.bb
+++ b/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "x11 polkit"
 
 inherit meson pkgconfig gobject-introspection gtk-icon-cache gsettings gtk-doc gettext features_check
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
+    file://0001-Do-not-crash-on-systemd-reporting-Univeral-timezone.patch \
+"
 SRCREV = "037b17248b176c7f3dd5c9848f8c6738105c4cc2"
 PV = "5.2.7+git${SRCPV}"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
diff --git a/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon/0001-Do-not-crash-on-systemd-reporting-Univeral-timezone.patch b/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon/0001-Do-not-crash-on-systemd-reporting-Univeral-timezone.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0f7765
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-cinnamon/cinnamon/cinnamon/0001-Do-not-crash-on-systemd-reporting-Univeral-timezone.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From b2065929dcbf0c6425d2e9e6913b445e70fbaa3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 21:55:08 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Do not crash on systemd/tzdata reporting Univeral timezone
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+On a fresh / YOCTO build raspi image with
+
+* tzdata 2022a
+* systemd 250.4
+* a 'print(timezone)' added at line 260
+
+the following log is created:
+| using systemd backend
+| Universal
+| Traceback (most recent call last):
+|  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py", line 149, in _on_proxy_ready
+|    self.proxy_ready_callback()
+|  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py", line 77, in _on_proxy_ready
+|    self.tz_selector.set_timezone(self.zone)
+|  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py", line 263, in set_timezone
+|    region, city = timezone.split('/', maxsplit=1)
+|ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/10775]
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+---
+ .../usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py b/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py
+index 267533f07..3953a970f 100755
+--- a/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py
++++ b/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_calendar.py
+@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class TimeZoneSelector(SettingsWidget):
+             self.region_map[region].append([city, _(city_display_name)])
+ 
+     def set_timezone(self, timezone):
+-        if timezone == "Etc/UTC":
++        if timezone == "Etc/UTC" or timezone == "Universal":
+             return
+ 
+         self.timezone = timezone
+-- 
+2.34.1
+