Comment 11 for bug 1650688

I reflashed the dragon board to retest

once a timezone is set the date command works, however timedatectl does not and the daemon does reset the TZ to nothing
~$ timedatectl
      Local time: Mon 2017-03-20 17:39:23 UTC
  Universal time: Mon 2017-03-20 17:39:23 UTC
        RTC time: Thu 1970-01-01 00:48:33
       Time zone: n/a (UTC, +0000)
 Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no
pat-mcgowan@localhost:~$ date
Mon Mar 20 13:39:57 EDT 2017

The snapweb UI reflects what timedatectl sees i.e. the wrong timezone.

So this bug seems to be "fixed", will open another on snapweb not to rely on timedatectl.