Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:39:48 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [WORKAROUND] Re: odd issue affecting firefox (any version) on freebsd (any version) Message-ID: <20200729053948.745643a5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20200729004821.GA80948@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <20200722182209.GA46914@bastion.zyxst.net> <20200729004821.GA80948@bastion.zyxst.net>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:48:21 +0100, tech-lists wrote: > It seems the problem was being caused by Firefox on freebsd giving > fastmail a fractional time-zone offset causing them to > generate an invalid offset in the JSON fastmail was sending to the server. Because > of this the server was rejecting the message resulting in the "Send Failed". > > [...] > > To reproduce, open a javascript console and enter > new Date().getTimezoneOffset() > and ctrl-enter and it should produce a whole number as output. Firefox on my > freebsd desktop outputs -59.55. My timezone is set Europe/London. Related collections of ancient wisdom: Falsehoods programmers believe about time https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html ;-) However, an offset of -59.55 really looks strange, especially as only one program on one platform produces it... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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