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I got paranoid after seeing my windows and doors being open when I was not at home, turns out I was looking at a graph with time in UTC. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago

This isn't a home assistant thing, this is a Firefox thing. Firefox will use UTC to resist fingerprinting browser wide, meaning all sites, not just home assistant

[โ€“] WhyJiffie 12 points 3 days ago

there's a timezone setting in the user settings, but setting it to use the server timezone did not really help for me.

you can also add certain domains to the resistfingerprinting whitelist. I believe its done with the privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains pref

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Timezones are a pretty good identifing aspect to your browser so enabling privacy stuff often messes that up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah resistFingerprinting unfortunately breaks a lot of stuff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Like fingerprinting. Or at least makes it a bit harder to figure out who what and where you are.