Timezone on Hub is incorrect | Voters

Timezone on Hub is incorrect

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Realthomas B 🇩🇰 (realthomasb)

I'm in CEST and the hub displays 'Reykjavik/Atlantic'. My phone is set to automatic determination of Time/Date settings, and correctly displays CEST.

What could be the possible cause for that?

June 8, 2025

Backgammon Hub Admin

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In Edit Profile you can now override the timezone reported by the browser.

Realthomas B 🇩🇰 (realthomasb)

Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]

Realthomas B 🇩🇰 (realthomasb) this means your browser is reporting Reykjavik to all websites not just Hub... it must be something in your browser or device settings.

Realthomas B 🇩🇰 (realthomasb)

Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer] I think I've found the reason...

Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]

Realthomas B 🇩🇰 (realthomasb) interesting. I don't think many sites use fingerprinting these days as the browsers make it quite hard by default. Am not sure that exposing your timezone helps fingerprinting a great deal either. I did think about adding a place for you to set your timezone on Hub so you don't have to rely on browser setting (or in case you want to override it).

Realthomas B 🇩🇰 (realthomasb)

Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer] oh well, as far as I can see it's only happening on my mobile where I use Mull browser. Everywhere else it's Firefox, and tz detection works flawlessly :)

Thanks for the great work you're doing here! Impressive site, and very nice and fast-paced gameplay