There we have the explanation: /etc/timezone must not be a symlink to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London.
The postinst of tzdata writes the timezone name "Europe/London" to
/etc/timezone. Since /etc/timezone is a symlink to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London on your system, it will write
"Europe/London" to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London.
Fix for your system:
sudo rm /etc/timezone
sudo apt install --reinstall tzdata
I am marking this bug as fixed, because Ubuntu 26.04 "resolute" removes
/etc/timezone and only relies on /etc/localtime. We could decide to make
the tzdata postinst handle this case better for Ubuntu 24.04 "noble" and
older, but you are the only know person being affected by this
misconfiguration. If more run into the same issue, we can reconsider it.
** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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