Change in timezone displayed by `uname -a`

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Does anyone know how to change the timezone displayed by uname -a?

My current output is from uname -a is:

Linux Paarthurnax 5.4.51-2-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 28 11:19:11 CDT 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I’d like it to be in UTC.

My output from timedatectl is:

               Local time: Mon 2020-08-17 09:23:49 BST
           Universal time: Mon 2020-08-17 08:23:49 UTC
                 RTC time: n/a                        
                Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100) 
System clock synchronized: yes                        
              NTP service: active                     
          RTC in local TZ: no
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There is something off with your settings - judging by your outputs

Tue Jul 28 11:19:11 CDT 2020

Local time: Mon 2020-08-17 09:23:49 BST
Universal time: Mon 2020-08-17 08:23:49 UTC

Verify that you have correctly linked the correct timezone in /etc

Example

➜  ~ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 13 aug 16:58 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen
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Hi,

… gives:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 14 21:38 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
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:man_facepalming: - I didn’t think

The date you see in the uname output is the kernel build date - there is nothing you can do to change that.

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Ah. So it’s locked to the timezone it was built in?

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This is no timezone - it is a timestamp.

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Makes sense now. Thank you for your help. :+1:

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