Hi Divan, On 4/2/20 3:57 am, di...@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 Regards, Ben
