Times in Firefox 55 lack time zone

[Sean C. Farley]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Sean C. Farley wrote:

> Starting with Firefox 55, I have noticed that times within the browser 
> are showing in UTC only.
>
> For example, this[1] page shows only UTC times in Firefox 55.  Firefox 
> 54 worked and Chromium 59 works as expected.  time(1) looks correct 
> showing the time in EDT.
>
> Anyone have ideas about this or can reproduce it?  The times on the 
> HipChat server at work are throwing me off.  :)
>
> Sean
>   1. http://browserspy.dk/date.php

And just like that, I found the issue.  The privacy.resistfingerprinting 
setting now spoofs the timezone as UTC, as noted in Firefox bug 
1330890[2].

Sean
   2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330890
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