LinuxFX Change TimeZone

My solution was to move /etc/localtime out of the way:

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mv /etc/localtime  /etc/wsf-localtime-wsf

Then link /etc/localtime back to the Jakarta timezone:

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ln -s  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jakarta   /etc/localtime

This immediately updated my timezone, and then the timedatectl command produced the output I was expecting.

A coworker mentioned that I might have needed to stop ntp (in my case chronyd on RHEL7) temporarily; however, with this new soft-link in place the system was set to my expectation. The change was persistent beyond a reboot too, which I did expect to happen but wanted to be certain.