I understand that you would expect me to use the built in JTAG, but that too doesn't work, and I actually want to Debug and Flash our custom board with an ESP32-S3 that already has the JTAG pins broken out to a header.

So to exclude any hardware issues , I decided to start with a ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 ...

ESP_Minatel - For "UTC-2" you should use "UTC2" and for "UTC+2" use "UTC-2".

Thx, that was my conclusion from the results, but I did not understand why.
Now at least UTC-2 correctly defining actual TZ of UTC+2 makes more sense.

Windows10, VSCode, Release 4.2 of the ESP-IDF
I have reinstalled Espressif extension and followed the onboarding (This is much improved from last time I did it.)
I have made sure the Environment variables are correct.
I installed PowerShell 7.1.0
Only path variable that is present in ...

##Board:
ESP32-Wroom32E-Devkit4

##Environment:
VSCode, using Espressif ESP-IDF Extension

##Problem:
I'm trying to set the TimeZone correctly for South Africa after obtaining time from NTP.
The Time Zone according to different databases is:
UTC+2
Africa/Johannesburg
SAST (South African Standard ...