I'm not sure why the timezone isn't set correctly in the shell, but it's the same on vivid, so it does seem to be an indicator issue alone.
** Also affects: unity8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1613977 Title: Timezone gets reset on boot on xenial Status in Canonical System Image: New Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Steps: * set a timezone in settings app * reboot Expected: * time is correct and datetime indicator shows the timezone Current: * time is in UTC and datetime indicator shows UTC $ system-image-cli -i current build number: 1 device name: frieza channel: ubuntu-touch/staging/ubuntu last update: 2016-08-16 17:09:33 version version: 1 version ubuntu: 20160816 version device: 20160809.0 version custom: 20160816 $ cat /etc/timezone Europe/Warsaw $ date Wed Aug 17 08:11:37 UTC 2016 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1613977/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp