1227499 - Inspector console new Date() format

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1073533

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Sergio]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Steps to reproduce:

This test must be done with the machine using a different timezone than GMT 00:00
I use Windows 7
Open default Mozilla Firefox Inspector
go to Console
run the command "new Date()"



Actual results:

The date shown uses the GMT timezone (+00:00), but my locale is GMT-3:00.
It shows a few hours ADVANCED in time.
Ex: if it is 10:00 it returns 12:00 we are in savings time (-3:00 + 1:00).
Note that using Firebug extension, it shows the correct date.
The problem is in the native Inspector Console.


Expected results:

Date should be GMT-3:00, I mean, two hours LESS.

Comment 1

[Sergio]

I found out that if I run new Date().getHours(), the value comes correct!

So... the complaint is ONLY with the format that Mozilla Inspector displays the new Date(), it doesn't make clear the timezone, and shows the Greenwich time, not respecting the user local timezone.

Right now in Brazil it's 13:32

That's what Mozilla Inspector Console says:
Date 2015-11-24T15:32:30.770Z

I think that '15 hours' make confusion to users.

Comment 2

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Indeed it is confusing. This is a duplicate of Bug 1079720.

Thanks Sergio for taking the time to report this issue.

Comment 3

[André Bargull [:anba]]

Bug 1079720 is an entirely different issue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#2014_zone_boundary_changes), whereas this issue is about using Date.prototype.toISOString for date formatting in the DevTools console.

Comment 4

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Thank you Andre for the heads up.

Comment 5

[Tom Tromey :tromey]

Seems to be a dup of the bug requesting that Date be formatted using the local timezone.