Comment 6 for bug 1733881

due to the nature of ubuntu-core we can not directly point to a zone file

there is no overlay fs due to the use of apparmor, /etc is not writable as a whole and we only have single files bind mounted ... for hostname, localtime and timezone we proxy the linking via the /etc/writable bind-mount, the link in there should definitely point to a zone file but i think timedatectl is actually not capable to handle multiple layers of symlinks by choice of upstream ...