diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/Gemfile b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/Gemfile
index 827039f144..5961f7515c 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/Gemfile
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/Gemfile
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ group :development, :test do
 <% end -%>
 end
 
-<% if RUBY_PLATFORM.match(/bccwin|cygwin|emx|mingw|mswin|wince/) -%>
+<% if RUBY_PLATFORM.match(/bccwin|cygwin|emx|mingw|mswin|wince|java/) -%>
 # Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
-gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw]
+gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
 <% end -%>