Re: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT

[Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>]

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