From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Divan Santana Subject: Re: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:27:39 +0200 Message-ID: <871rr1zlic.fsf@swift.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j1P1d-0006S0-NM for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:28:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1P1a-0003hh-4s for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:28:00 -0500 Received: from [156.0.193.126] (port=53899 helo=mail.santanas.co.za) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1P1Z-0003Nw-OB for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:27:58 -0500 Received: from authenticated-user (mail.santanas.co.za [156.0.193.126]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.santanas.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACB57226 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:27:47 +0200 (SAST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Help guix Hi Ben, Ben Sturmfels 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: divansantana and QDateTime works as well it's something qtwebenine or javascript related