636228 - Timezone String is not available through Javascript for Australian Western Time (Australia/Perth)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1069979

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[bochenekgeorge]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)

An empty string is returned for the timezone string when the users system is set to Australia/Perth.  This can be reproduced by switching your system time to Australia/Perth and outputting new Date() in a javascript console.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch system timezone to Australia / Perth
2. Open a javascript console (firebug) within Firefox
3. Output new Date();
Actual Results:  
The date object is outputted successfully, but there is no timezone string.

Expected Results:  
Time zone string should be listed as AUS Western Standard Time