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Firefox screenshots are saved with wrong time

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Screenshots made from the Developer Tools are saved with the time taken embedded into the file name. On my machine that time is in the time zone UTC+08, where I was a month ago. However, my Windows 10 machine is in time zone UTC-05, where I am now. The correct time is reported when I run in the JavaScript console:

Date()

How is it possible that time zone for the screenshots file names is still wrong? How can I fix that?

Screenshots made from the Developer Tools are saved with the time taken embedded into the file name. On my machine that time is in the time zone UTC+08, where I was a month ago. However, my Windows 10 machine is in time zone UTC-05, where I am now. The correct time is reported when I run in the JavaScript console: '''Date()''' ''How is it possible that time zone for the screenshots file names is still wrong? How can I fix that?''

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OK, this is a known bug and fixed for Firefox 89.

  • 1701461 - Screenshot filename uses wrong day number (day# + 1 instead of day#) [89]

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I think the time string comes from this code:

Does this also happen with a screenshot via "Take a Screenshot" ?

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cor-el said

I think the time string comes from this code: Does this also happen with a screenshot via "Take a Screenshot" ?

No, and I gave wrong information. It's not the wrong time zone. It's simply that the day is plus one:

136K May 23 17:21 Screen Shot 2021-05-24 at 17.21.57-fullpage.png 136K May 23 17:23 Screenshot_2021-05-23 MDN Web Docs.png

The first one was taken from the Developer Tools, the second one using the popup menu.

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OK, this is a known bug and fixed for Firefox 89.

  • 1701461 - Screenshot filename uses wrong day number (day# + 1 instead of day#) [89]

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
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Will wait then for the update, thanks for finding that out!