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Status: Assigned
Owner: [email protected]
Labels: Type-Bug Priority-Medium OS-Windows
Comment #2 on issue 1386 by [email protected]: new Date() returns invalid
time zone offset, and hour field
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1386
We need to use the localtime() function because we need the actual local
time corresponding to a given UTC time, including the daylight savings
offset, and including effects due to historical changes in time zones and
daylight savings. The tzinfo Bias field just reflects the current time
zone, without DST.
The existing code should work on your system, so we would like to find out
why it doesn't. If you change your time zone, using the OS, then then new
information will not be available until you refresh the tab, or even reopen
the page, because the sandbox prevents the renderer process from accessing
a new DLL (the new time zone info is in a DLL) that was not already
attached when the sandbox was created.
Could you verify that the wrong answer is being given for other dates,
besides the current date? Looking at the code, it looks like dates after
2038 will be in GMT, incorrectly. Make sure that the browser has been
restarted after you change the time zone. Also check other time zones to
see if the problem occurs for them.
If you are using the V8 library directly, then the sandboxing shouldn't be
an issue. Is this in a browser, or in the V8 shell, or another use?
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