Csdrhrt

I realize that this is a common issue, but I can't find the fix to my problem.

Live in "America/Chicago (CST, -0600)" but ubuntu is showing UTC time.

It is 4pm local time here:

$ timedatectl  

                      Local time: Thu 2018-11-22 16:11:47 CST  

                  Universal time: Thu 2018-11-22 22:11:47 UTC  

                        RTC time: Thu 2018-11-22 22:11:47  

                       Time zone: America/Chicago (CST, -0600)  

       System clock synchronized: yes  

 systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes  

                 RTC in local TZ: no  

So TimeDateCtl knows local time, but the Date command is showing me UTC

$ date

Thu Nov 22 22:15:54 Chicago 2018

I have made sure that the BIOS time is UTC, and my service is started up, just wrong.

● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-11-22 22:07:07 Chicago; 9min ago

     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)

 Main PID: 1360 (systemd-timesyn)

   Status: "Synchronized to time server 91.189.89.199:123 (ntp.ubuntu.com)."

    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)

   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service

           └─1360 /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd

What else do I try? I set it to local time and back, I've restarted every service I can find.

Edit, I don't see a problem here either:

sudo hwclock --debug

hwclock from util-linux 2.31.1

System Time: 1542925579.769423

Trying to open: /dev/rtc0

Using the rtc interface to the clock.

Assuming hardware clock is kept in UTC time.

Waiting for clock tick...

...got clock tick

Time read from Hardware Clock: 2018/11/22 22:26:20

Hw clock time : 2018/11/22 22:26:20 = 1542925580 seconds since 1969

Time since last adjustment is 1542925580 seconds

Calculated Hardware Clock drift is 0.000000 seconds

2018-11-22 22:26:19.764979+0000

Your environment variable TZ is the cause of the problem.

$ echo $TZ

Chicago/New_York

Chicago/New_York is an invalid time zone, so date will default to UTC instead, but for some reason still display the first part of the zone name as time zone, resulting in:

$ timedatectl  

                      Local time: Thu 2018-11-22 16:11:47 CST  

                  Universal time: Thu 2018-11-22 22:11:47 UTC  

                        RTC time: Thu 2018-11-22 22:11:47  

                       Time zone: America/Chicago (CST, -0600)  

       System clock synchronized: yes  

 systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes  

                 RTC in local TZ: no  



$ date

Thu Nov 22 22:15:54 Chicago 2018

Now to fix the issue, we just need to find out where that wrong value is set and delete the line. Search for something like one of the lines below in your shell/profile initialization scripts, like ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc or if it affects all users maybe even /etc/environment, /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/* or /etc/bash.bashrc:

TZ='Chicago/New_York'

export TZ='Chicago/New_York'