Comment 40 for bug 1650688

One of our commercial customers just reported an issue about timedatectl not working properly on Ubuntu Core 16.

The short summary:

1. sudo timedatectl set-timezone TZ works:
  - /etc/timezone is set correctly
  - the date command displays the new TZ correctly
  - timedatectl displays the new TZ

2. after a reboot, /etc/timezone is still set to the new TZ, date still displays the new TZ, however timedatectl shows the timezone as unset

3. Using DBus to set the TZ as described in comment #36 still fails