Bug#628602: chromium: Date() always returns UTC unless --single-process is passed

[Will Thompson]

On 30/05/11 17:31, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> . http://crbug.com/73983 ("[Regression] Date.getTimezoneOffset
>   returns 0 inside sandbox" explains the symptoms well.  I wonder if
>   it would be possible to trigger this in nodejs to see if it's a
>   libv8 problem or chromium-specific?

I just installed nodejs 0.4.7-1 (which also uses libv8-3.1.8.10) and
Date() seems to work correctly:

   % js
  > Date()
  'Mon May 30 2011 17:37:07 GMT+0100 (BST)'

   % TZ= js
  > Date()
  'Mon May 30 2011 16:37:13 GMT+0000 (UTC)'

This suggests to me that it's Chromium-specific.

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Will