Thank you Benjamin (bdrung) -- the problem was that my .bashrc/.bash_profile set TZ=Canada/Eastern, a legacy time zone name, and that legacy name disappeared in Ubuntu 24.04.1. Its disappearance caused many programs to silently misbehave, including both "date" and the GUI. Setting TZ=America/Toronto has fixed my problem, but let this bug report be a plea to have programs give diagnostics when TZ doesn't contain a valid time zone.
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