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I've newly installed Ubuntu 18.04.3 on two hosts, desktop on one, server on another. The timezone on the server resets to UTC on each boot.

# cat /etc/timezone
America/Los_Angeles

# ls -la /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Sep  2 22:47 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

I've run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata several times. I've tried timedatectl set-timezone "America/Los_Angeles" too.

timedatectl shows:

                      Local time: Mon 2019-09-02 23:00:54 America
                  Universal time: Mon 2019-09-02 23:00:54 UTC
                        RTC time: Mon 2019-09-02 16:00:44
                       Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (America, +0000)
       System clock synchronized: no
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: yes

I can't get the Local Time to show PDT like the desktop? I do have NTP installed and configured.

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Thank you Byte Commander for the clarifying edits. But I still need to find an answer.

    $ date
Tue Sep  3 20:18:13 UTC 2019

Shows UTC instead of PDT like it should.

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On a whim, I tried renaming /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime. I re-ran dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. The files were recreated. Date still shows UTC.

Kirk Bocek
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Looks like I fixed it with:

apt install --reinstall tzdata

Resulting in:

    # timedatectl
                      Local time: Wed 2019-09-04 08:42:58 PDT
                  Universal time: Wed 2019-09-04 15:42:58 UTC
                        RTC time: Wed 2019-09-04 15:42:58
                       Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
       System clock synchronized: no
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
Kirk Bocek
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