bug#55089: [IceCat and IceDove]: Doesn't use system's locale/timezone.

bug#55089: [IceCat and IceDove]: Doesn't use system's locale/timezone.

[Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hello Guix,

It appears that the applications IceCat and IceDove doesn't follow 
system's locale/timezone. By default, it uses UTC.

This is observed in Guix System and not sure about foreign distros.

Regards,
RG.

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bug#55089: [IceCat and IceDove]: Doesn't use system's locale/timezone.

[bdju via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

On Sun Apr 24, 2022 at 1:06 AM CDT, Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Hello Guix,
>
> It appears that the applications IceCat and IceDove doesn't follow 
> system's locale/timezone. By default, it uses UTC.
>
> This is observed in Guix System and not sure about foreign distros.
>
> Regards,
> RG.

In IceCat at least I believe this is due to the resistfingerprinting
about:config setting. Not sure about IceDove. I have noticed a similar
issue with w3m, though. It doesn't match my system's time.

bug#55089: [IceCat and IceDove]: Doesn't use system's locale/timezone.

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Raghav and bdju,

"bdju" via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> On Sun Apr 24, 2022 at 1:06 AM CDT, Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
>> Hello Guix,
>>
>> It appears that the applications IceCat and IceDove doesn't follow 
>> system's locale/timezone. By default, it uses UTC.
>>
>> This is observed in Guix System and not sure about foreign distros.
>>
>> Regards,
>> RG.
>
> In IceCat at least I believe this is due to the resistfingerprinting
> about:config setting.

Indeed, the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" setting in <about:config>
makes an attempt to avoid leaking personally identifying information
about you.  Locale and time zone are two such pieces of information
which narrow down the set of people you might be, even if you are using
Tor or a VPN.  It is set to "true" by default in IceCat, and "false" by
default in upstream Firefox.

We should probably expose the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" in the
IceCat-specific privacy settings in <about:preferences#privacy>, since
it's a setting that many users will want to turn off.  The same setting
also causes problems for some Javascript programs, including some
audio/video players.

      Regards,
        Mark

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bug#55089: [IceCat and IceDove]: Doesn't use system's locale/timezone.

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

Hello Raghav,

Hm, I can't reproduce it in Icedove. I have CEST as timezone (UTC-2) and
all timestamps I can found are in CEST.

Where does this problem occur in Icedove for you?

bug#55089: [IceCat and IceDove]: Doesn't use system's locale/timezone.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> writes:

> Hello Raghav,
>
> Hm, I can't reproduce it in Icedove. I have CEST as timezone (UTC-2) and
> all timestamps I can found are in CEST.
>
> Where does this problem occur in Icedove for you?

I reproduce it on my side, see #59368.

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Thanks,
Maxim