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Ansible galaxy v 2.5.0 under python 3.6 seems to have a problem downloading your role due to multiple versions present. Could you remove one of the versions either v1.1.0 or 1.1.0?

./.tox/py36-ansible25-functional/bin/ansible-galaxy install -r test/scenarios/dependency/molecule/ansible-galaxy/requirements.yml
- downloading role 'timezone', owned by yatesr
 [WARNING]: - timezone was NOT installed successfully: Unable to compare role versions (v1.1.0, 1.1.0, 1.0.0) to determine the most recent version due to incompatible version formats.
Please contact the role author to resolve versioning conflicts, or specify an explicit role version to install.

ERROR! - you can use --ignore-errors to skip failed roles and finish processing the list.

Could be automated via TravisCI.

Currently this role does no privilege escalation which is unclear from the documentation. That means if we do not run this playbook as privileged user it will fail.

If we "globally" run this role as privileged user, then every command will be run as "root" which we also might want to avoid.

TIL that some service does not use the newly set timezone until they are restarted.
Some people suggest to reboot the whole server in order for all services to pickup the new Timezone.
Still it might be interesting to avoid restarting the whole system and be specific for which process we want to restart / reload.
So my suggestion is: if the timezone is changed, iterate on a list of service and restart those.

Here is a resource about this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/144064/set-server-timezone-but-not-working-with-crontab-and-phpmyadmin/506264#506264

In my case, i needed to do:

sudo service cron restart 
sudo service rsyslog restart