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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Will Thompson wrote:
> On 30/05/11 17:21, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Thanks much for a pointer.  What version of chromium did you use
>> before (/var/log/dpkg.log will say if you don't remember)?
>
> 10.0.648.205~r81283-1

Thanks.  Cc-ing the bug log; please do that directly next time, so
if I am not available then others can continue work on this.

The upstream bug reports are a muddle.

. 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?

. http://crbug.com/16800 is fascinating, has similar symptoms,
  but seems to have already been fixed elsewhere.

. http://crbug.com/17535 is ancient but recent comments explain
  the workaround you mentioned.