Ansible timezone issue

It appears like there is a bug with setting the timezone with ansible. Maybe it will be fixed soon but a workaround like below worked for me.

Issue:
Timezone module cannot set timezone in not systemd based system #19745
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19745

Should work like this:

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   - name: set timezone to New_York
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     timezone:
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      name: America/New_York

Workaround like this:

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  vars:
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   - timezone: America/New_York
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   - name: Check current timezone
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     shell: awk -F\" '{ print $2}' /etc/sysconfig/clock
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     register: current_zone
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     changed_when: False
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   - name: Set EST timezone
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     file: src=/usr/share/zoneinfo/{{ timezone }}  dest=/etc/localtime state=link force=yes
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     when: current_zone.stdout != '{{ timezone }}'