diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 639e57d25c..1f99d5f5de 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ edition = "2018"
 name = "chrono"
 
 [features]
-default = ["clock", "std", "wasmbind"]
+default = ["clock", "std", "wasmbind", "iana-time-zone"]
 alloc = []
 libc = []
 std = []
-clock = ["std", "windows-sys", "iana-time-zone"]
+clock = ["std", "windows-sys"]
 wasmbind = ["wasm-bindgen", "js-sys"]
 unstable-locales = ["pure-rust-locales", "alloc"]
 __internal_bench = ["criterion"]
diff --git a/src/offset/local/unix.rs b/src/offset/local/unix.rs
index 22114f21ef..6d02069a44 100644
--- a/src/offset/local/unix.rs
+++ b/src/offset/local/unix.rs
@@ -78,12 +78,18 @@ const TZDB_LOCATION: &str = "/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo";
 #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "aix")))]
 const TZDB_LOCATION: &str = "/usr/share/zoneinfo";
 
+#[cfg(feature = "iana-time-zone")]
 fn fallback_timezone() -> Option<TimeZone> {
     let tz_name = iana_time_zone::get_timezone().ok()?;
     let bytes = fs::read(format!("{}/{}", TZDB_LOCATION, tz_name)).ok()?;
     TimeZone::from_tz_data(&bytes).ok()
 }
 
+#[cfg(not(feature = "iana-time-zone"))]
+fn fallback_timezone() -> Option<TimeZone> {
+   None
+}
+
 impl Default for Cache {
     fn default() -> Cache {
         // default to UTC if no local timezone can be found