OCI: Daylight Saving Time Not working on Instance With TimeZone “Africa/Cairo (EET, +0200)”

APPLIES TO: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64 

Symptoms 

Daylight Saving Time changes are not taking effect in one of the instances whereas other instances are showing proper DST change. 

<<Non-Working System>> 

$ timedatectl 

     Local time: Wed 2024-05-29 14:57:09 EET 

 Universal time: Wed 2024-05-29 12:57:09 UTC 

       RTC time: Wed 2024-05-29 12:57:09 

      Time zone: Africa/Cairo (EET, +0200)  

    NTP enabled: yes 

NTP synchronized: no 

RTC in local TZ: no 
     DST active: n/a   

 

<<Working System>> 

$ timedatectl 

     Local time: Wed 2024-05-29 15:56:56 EEST 

 Universal time: Wed 2024-05-29 12:56:56 UTC 

       RTC time: Wed 2024-05-29 12:56:56 

      Time zone: Africa/Cairo (EEST, +0300)  

    NTP enabled: yes 

NTP synchronized: no