From: Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>
To: Help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:27:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rr1zlic.fsf@swift.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7d28921-6227-21df-ab61-16e65a75aa5e@stumbles.id.au>
Hi Ben,
Ben Sturmfels <ben@stumbles.id.au> writes:
> Hi Divan,
>
> On 4/2/20 3:57 am, divan@santanas.co.za wrote:
>> I see timezones in browsers on my guix system are set to GMT.
>>
>> An example would be qutebrowser and guessing ungoogled-chromium which
>> use qtwebengine.
>>
>> Example website is browsing to
>> https://play.grafana.org/d/000000012/grafana-play-home?orgId=1
>>
>> in qutebrowser one can run ":jseval alert(new Date().toString())" From
>> https://play.grafana.org/ and it reports GMT+0000 .
>>
>> Browsing to the above with epiphany results in the correct local
>> timezone being set.
>>
>> I understand for fingerprinting and privacy it's nice to have a
>> website not detect your correct timezone, though I'd prefer to have my
>> timezone detected correctly in these browsers.
>>
>> Does guix do something special in the packaging of
>> qutebrowser/ungoogled-chromium/qtwebengine that causes this?
>>
>> It seems to not occur on my colleagues systems with the same browsers.
>>
>> I see my timezone on my system like so:
>>
>> (operating-system
>> (host-name "example")
>> (timezone "Africa/Johannesburg")
>> (locale "en_US.utf8")
>
> For what it's worth, there's a bug report here matching the issue you
> describe. The issue appears to affect quite a number of programs.
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746
Had a look at that thanks.
Seems icecat works, when the privacy feature (ResistFingerprinting) is
disabled in about:config .
chrome and qutebrowser however do not report the correct time for me.
str1ngs in irc mentioned:
<str1ngs> divansantana and QDateTime works as well
<str1ngs> it's something qtwebenine or javascript related
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-11 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-03 16:57 guix browsers timezones are set to GMT divan
2020-02-03 23:12 ` Ben Sturmfels
2020-02-05 21:42 ` Marius Bakke
2020-02-11 6:27 ` Divan Santana [this message]
2020-02-12 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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