diff --git a/django/utils/tzinfo.py b/django/utils/tzinfo.py
index c40b430411..208b7e7191 100644
--- a/django/utils/tzinfo.py
+++ b/django/utils/tzinfo.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import time
 from datetime import timedelta, tzinfo
 
-from django.utils.encoding import smart_text, smart_bytes, DEFAULT_LOCALE_ENCODING
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_text, smart_str, DEFAULT_LOCALE_ENCODING
 
 # Python's doc say: "A tzinfo subclass must have an __init__() method that can
 # be called with no arguments". FixedOffset and LocalTimezone don't honor this
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class LocalTimezone(tzinfo):
         self._tzname = self.tzname(dt)
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return smart_bytes(self._tzname)
+        return smart_str(self._tzname)
 
     def __getinitargs__(self):
         return self.__dt,