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* guix browsers timezones are set to GMT
@ 2020-02-03 16:57 divan
  2020-02-03 23:12 ` Ben Sturmfels
  2020-02-12 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: divan @ 2020-02-03 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Help guix

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")

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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
2020-02-12 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès

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