You and I are saying the same thing in different ways, except the part about systemd. I didn’t realize it did anything with timezones because I keep thinking of

You and I are saying the same thing in different ways, except the part about systemd. I didn’t realize it did anything with timezones because I keep thinking of it as just modern initd but I guess it goes beyond that. I didn’t realize that if you remove all mention of local timezones from /etc/ that a user could still break systemd by setting their own TZ.