This looks like it's probably a bug in xenial's systemd? Not sure why anyone cares deeply about the output of "timedatectl", but on bionic, I get:
(base)root@nosferatu:/etc# ls -l localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 22 15:34 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC (base)root@nosferatu:/etc# cat timezone Etc/UTC (base)root@nosferatu:/etc# timedatectl Local time: Wed 2017-11-22 15:36:25 UTC Universal time: Wed 2017-11-22 15:36:25 UTC RTC time: Wed 2017-11-22 15:36:25 Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000) System clock synchronized: yes systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes RTC in local TZ: no
This looks like it's probably a bug in xenial's systemd? Not sure why anyone cares deeply about the output of "timedatectl", but on bionic, I get:
(base)root@ nosferatu: /etc# ls -l localtime zoneinfo/ Etc/UTC nosferatu: /etc# cat timezone nosferatu: /etc# timedatectl
Local time: Wed 2017-11-22 15:36:25 UTC
Universal time: Wed 2017-11-22 15:36:25 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2017-11-22 15:36:25
Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000) timesyncd. service active: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 22 15:34 localtime -> /usr/share/
(base)root@
Etc/UTC
(base)root@
System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-