Ed Greshko writes:
Another interesting factoid.
[egreshko@f33g ~]$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Dublin [egreshko@f33g ~]$ date Sun Mar 21 22:49:06 GMT 2021 [egreshko@f33g ~]$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Taipei
And the command is "hung"
Until....
Failed to set time zone: Connection timed out
I recall the days when to set the system timezone one only needed to update /etc/timezone
echo EST5EDT >/etc/timezone
or
echo America/New_York >/etc/timezone
Presto, and your default timezone has changed.
But, it seems that this was too simple. Things cannot be this simple anymore. We must have daemons involved in this process, for some unclear reason. The more, the merrier.