Currently on a system with ubuntu and awesome as the window manager.
For some reason changing the timezone in gnome control center does not do a thing. Running date
returns the right timezone (as this was modified by appending TZ='America/Los_Angeles'; export TZ
in .bashrc), but as the clock widget runs by gnome control center's watch, my clock is always set on the wrong (previous) time zone.
I have NTP installed and the time is correct, it's simply that the timezones are not being changed properly.