fix: blocking call for timezone fetching, references #171

[geertmeersman]

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Motivation and Context

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Enhancement (changes that improvement of current feature or performance)
• Refactoring (changes that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature)
• Code style optimization (changes that do not affect the meaning of the code)
• Docs (changes that only update documentation)
• Chore (changes that don't modify src or test files)

Self Check before Merge

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.

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