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Raspbian Time-Zones and ntpd	Raspberry-pi linux

Setting the time zone in raspbian using raspi-config has strange results

Current default time zone: 'US/Pacific-New'
Local time is now:      Mon Jan  1 08:02:07 PST 2018.
Universal Time is now:  Mon Jan  1 16:02:07 UTC 2018.

setting the time zone to GMT-8 manually is even weirder

Current default time zone: 'Etc/GMT-8'
Local time is now:      Tue Jan  2 00:02:46 +08 2018.
Universal Time is now:  Mon Jan  1 16:02:46 UTC 2018.

The solution is to shut down ntpd while changing the time zone

sudo /etc/init.d/ntp stop
sudo raspi-config #set time zone
sudo date -s "1 Jan 2018 00:09:00"
sudo /etc/init.d/ntp start

And yes, I did spend New Years debugging time zones in Linux, among other things.