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From: divan@santanas.co.za
To: Help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:57:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu9za9ro.fsf@swift.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)

Hi Guix

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")

             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-03 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-03 16:57 divan [this message]
2020-02-03 23:12 ` guix browsers timezones are set to GMT Ben Sturmfels
2020-02-05 21:42   ` Marius Bakke
2020-02-11  6:27   ` Divan Santana
2020-02-12 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès

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