Wifi stopped working after updates

[flatulent_piney]

With the DST change recently, I went thru a bit of this,, check
date  ;  ls -l /etc/localtime  (should be soft link to right tz)
if ifconfig or ip a doesn't show wlan0,, wpa_supplicant won't work, maybe try bind cmd???
sudo tee /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/es8316/{un,}bind

link to correct tz is there.  No idea what is going on with the time. Date/time show incorrectly on lockscreen, but correctly once in the OS, but only if I uncheck ''Audtomatic Date and Time" in the settings.  If that setting is checked, I get a new incorrect date and time for each reboot.

/sys/bus/i2c/drivers shows no directory for es8316 in the borked install. However es8316 *is* there in a functioning instal on an sd card.  A number of other directories are also missing.  I will search around and see what I can make of this while we wait for the OP to come back and confirm if any of these issues are present with their problem.  I dont want to hijack the thread