Netscape 7 Timezone question

[LJL]

Greetings:

I have a question regarding the system time and Netscape 7. I am running
Win98SE.

When Netscape 7 first loads it seems to store the currently set system time
zone information. If I change the time zone after Netscape 7 is loaded,
from Eastern time to Pacific time for example, it still uses the old time
zone info. In other words, the system clock now says it is Pacific time
but Netscape still reports Eastern time if it is given this:

var dummy = new Date();
window.alert(dummy);

IE 6 has no problem with this. It reports the new time zone.

First off, is this happening to anyone else? Second, does anyone know a
way to make Netscape 7 keep track of the system's time zone settings,
especially if they are changed?

This isn't a big problem, but I'm developing a calendar with some time
functions and it makes trouble shooting a pain.

Any help would be appreciated. If nothing else, verification that this
happens to others would be of benefit.

Best regards,
LJL

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <Xn***************************@207.69.154.204>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, LJL <no**@nowhere.com> posted at Mon, 26 Jan
2004 06:09:20 :-

I have a question regarding the system time and Netscape 7. I am running
Win98SE.

When Netscape 7 first loads it seems to store the currently set system time
zone information. If I change the time zone after Netscape 7 is loaded,
from Eastern time to Pacific time for example, it still uses the old time
zone info. In other words, the system clock now says it is Pacific time
but Netscape still reports Eastern time if it is given this:

var dummy = new Date();
window.alert(dummy);

IE 6 has no problem with this. It reports the new time zone.

First off, is this happening to anyone else? Second, does anyone know a
way to make Netscape 7 keep track of the system's time zone settings,
especially if they are changed?

I don't recall whether a correct action is defined. Settings could be
read from the OS at the moment of use, when the page is loaded, or when
the browser is loaded.

At the moment, I cannot think of any OS settings that affect javascript
other than those involving Date Objects; for example, *AFAIK* there is
no use for currency setting in javascript, and, though the decimal
separator setting could be used, it is not. Are there others?

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