diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/gencode-remote b/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/gencode-remote
index d8612986..b685c990 100755
--- a/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/gencode-remote
+++ b/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/gencode-remote
@@ -34,12 +34,3 @@ case "$os" in
       echo "echo \"$timezone_should\" > /etc/timezone"
    ;;
 esac
-
-case "$os" in
-    openwrt)
-        cat <<EOF
-			uci set system.@system[0].timezone="$timezone_should"
-			uci commit
-EOF
-   ;;
-esac
diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/manifest b/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/manifest
index 307bec04..0eb7fb9c 100755
--- a/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/manifest
+++ b/cdist/conf/type/__timezone/manifest
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@ case "$os" in
                 --file /etc/sysconfig/clock \
                 --delimiter '=' \
                 --value "\"$timezone\""
-        ;;
-    openwrt)
-        : # Uses gencode-remote
-        ;;
+    ;;
     *)
         echo "Your operating system ($os) is currently not supported by this type (${__type##*/})." >&2
         echo "Please contribute an implementation for it if you can." >&2
diff --git a/docs/changelog b/docs/changelog
index fa741365..4e9a8a6d 100644
--- a/docs/changelog
+++ b/docs/changelog
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
 
-next:
-	* Type __timezone: Add support for OpenWRT (Nico Schottelius)
-
 7.0.1:
 	* Core: Remove double definition of scan parser (Nico Schottelius)
 	* Type __apt_mark: Narrow down grep for hold packages (marcoduif)