diff --git a/roles/www_options/tasks/php-settings.yml b/roles/www_options/tasks/php-settings.yml
index de8326d67..adedee11b 100644
--- a/roles/www_options/tasks/php-settings.yml
+++ b/roles/www_options/tasks/php-settings.yml
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 # nec, then (3) if neither exist, "UTC" is declared (correctly!)  Potential
 # drawback: timedatectl is not easily usable within chroot environments.
 
+# 2025-01-29: Current GitHub Actions chroot environments for RPi (using guyot/arm-runner-action@v2) surface this error, after PR #3927 mainlined php-settings.yml...
+# "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.\nFailed to connect to bus: Host is down"
+# ...which might be mitigated in 2 ways:
+# 1) Try spawning these "guyot/arm-runner-action@v2" GHA workflows with...  use_systemd_nspawn: true
+# 2) Weaken timedatectl command just below, trying this instead...  shell: readlink /etc/localtime | sed 's#^/usr/share/zoneinfo/##'
+
 - name: Extract Time Zone from symlink /etc/localtime &/or text file /etc/timezone (or lack thereof!)
   command: timedatectl show -p Timezone --value
   register: tz_cli