Comment # 6 on bug 1116498 from Stefan Hundhammer

On the freshly installed Leap 15.6 on my laptop where the HW clock is running
on UTC:

[sh @ uruk] ~ 7 % cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="US/Eastern"

[sh @ uruk] ~ 8 % timedatectl

               Local time: Mo 2024-07-01 14:01:14 CEST
           Universal time: Mo 2024-07-01 12:01:14 UTC
                 RTC time: Mo 2024-07-01 12:01:14
                Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CEST, +0200)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

[sh @ uruk] ~ 9 % TZ=UTC sudo hwclock     
2024-07-01 12:01:23.208051+00:00

[sh @ uruk] ~ 10 % date
Mo 1. Jul 14:01:30 CEST 2024


The default "US/Eastern" is what I always get (to my great annoyance) as the
default during installation when prompted for my time zone. This is defined by
the release manager in the product's control.xml file.

The /etc/sysconfig/clock file is not owned by any package, so it should
normally be generated by a fillup template, but I can't find that template in
/usr/share/fillup-templates on that system or on my Leap 15.5.