Listing the available timezones shows 'UTC'
$ timedatectl list-timezones
UTC
Setting it to UTC fails claiming UTC is "invalid".
$ timedatectl set-timezone UTC
Failed to set time zone: Invalid time zone 'UTC'
This is on Ubuntu 19.10 (Google Cloud)
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10
Codename: eoan
Why is this failing?
Best Answer
Etc/UTC
You are missing Area code defined in the official tz database.
The time zone format is
Area/Location
. For most zones, the Area is a continent and the Location is a major city. For example,America/Montreal
,Africa/Tunis
,Asia/Tokyo
, andPacific/Auckland
. Peruse this list.Administrative zones have a special area:
Etc
. Therefore, the correct name for Coordinated Universal Time isEtc/UTC
.