@Ketan

Great! Many thanks for sharing the solution. This will be of benefit to readers in the future.

CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core).

We just fixed the issue by “rerunning” the timezone. The log showed bad characters at the end, America/Chicago^? (^?).

We ran tzselect and then chose options 2, 49, 11 for Chicago. Gracefully rebooted the server “shutdown -r now”

Thank you, Aaron, for your reply.

@Ketan

Which application is showing this error? And which Linux distribution are you running?

ERROR:
tzone_read_system: no match found for America/Chicago^?

Here are my current settings

[root@backup etc]# timedatectl
      Local time: Thu 2020-04-23 11:28:51 CDT
  Universal time: Thu 2020-04-23 16:28:51 UTC
        RTC time: Thu 2020-04-23 16:28:51
       Time zone: America/Chicago (CDT, -0500)
     NTP enabled: no
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: yes
 Last DST change: DST began at
                  Sun 2020-03-08 01:59:59 CST
                  Sun 2020-03-08 03:00:00 CDT
 Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
                  Sun 2020-11-01 01:59:59 CDT
                  Sun 2020-11-01 01:00:00 CST
[root@backup etc]# 

[root@triadbackup etc]# ls -ltr /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Mar 26 12:20 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago
[root@backup etc]# 
[root@backup etc]# timedatectl | grep local
 RTC in local TZ: no
[root@backup etc]# 
[root@backup etc]# timedatectl list-timezones | grep Chicago
America/Chicago
[root@backup etc]# 
[root@triadbackup etc]# date
Thu Apr 23 11:34:36 CDT 2020
[root@backup etc]#

@Lance,

I understand your concerns, we’ve corrected the commands with correct quotes..