Below is the output after I made the change and continued the 16.04 dist-upgrade process.
820 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 3 to remove and 144 not upgraded. 215 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/494 MB of archives. After this operation, 142 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up tzdata (2016a-1) ... Current default time zone: 'Etc/UTC' Local time is now: Sun Mar 13 02:49:09 UTC 2016. Universal Time is now: Sun Mar 13 02:49:09 UTC 2016. Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it. (Reading database ... 398777 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python-cairo_1.8.8-2_amd64.deb ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tzdata in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556527 Title: tzdate upgrade fails wih invalid format error during Xenial upgrade Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Everything looks fine; Not sure what is invalid about the format. I am EST, the output is in UTC. Breaks the upgrade after from 15.05 at a point where is says it completed with errors, but some 200+ packages remaining. Setting up tzdata (2016a-1) ... Current default time zone: 'America/Toronto' date: invalid date 'Sun Mar 13 02:32:57 UTC 2016' dpkg: error processing package tzdata (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: tzdata 2016a-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-30.36-generic 4.2.8-ckt3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Mar 12 21:35:07 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-22 (507 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tzdata UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-13 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/1556527/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

