diff --git a/lib/hexo/validate_config.ts b/lib/hexo/validate_config.ts
index ffb4a5a3..818e8558 100644
--- a/lib/hexo/validate_config.ts
+++ b/lib/hexo/validate_config.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import assert from 'assert';
+import moment from 'moment-timezone';
 import type Hexo from './index';
 
 export = (ctx: Hexo): void => {
@@ -24,5 +25,23 @@ export = (ctx: Hexo): void => {
   if (config.root.trim().length <= 0) {
     throw new TypeError('Invalid config detected: "root" should not be empty!');
   }
-};
 
+  if (!config.timezone) {
+    log.warn('No timezone setting detected! Using LocalTimeZone as the default timezone.');
+    log.warn('This behavior will be changed to UTC in the next major version. Please set timezone explicitly (e.g. LocalTimeZone or America/New_York) in _config.yml to avoid this warning.');
+  } else {
+    const configTimezone = moment.tz.zone(config.timezone);
+    if (!configTimezone) {
+      log.warn(
+        `Invalid timezone setting detected! "${config.timezone}" is not a valid timezone.`
+      );
+    } else {
+      const machineTimezone = moment.tz.guess();
+      if (configTimezone.name !== machineTimezone) {
+        log.warn(
+          `The timezone "${config.timezone}" setting is different from your machine timezone "${machineTimezone}". Make sure this is intended.`
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  }
+};