Question then:
I was using Chrome (and liked it a lot) but I noticed that I could not get the posts here on Free Republic to default to a 12 clock Eastern Time format.
No matter what I tried, it continued to show posts only in Military Time.
When I DL'd the newest Firefox (5.0) and came back here, all was well. So I decided it must be a problem with Chrome.
Was I wrong?
Do you have a solution?
TIA
It is. I just tried it, and it wants to format timestamps like "Sun Jul 31 2011 19:49:48 GMT-0400 (EDT)". It's supposed to honor whatever date/time zone and format you have configured for your machine. It's getting the zone right, but not the format.
FR pages download with all the timestamps formatted in Pacific time, e.g., "07/31/2011 4:49:43 PM PDT". There is a JavaScript loop that rifles through all the timestamps on the page and tries to convert each one to the local zone and format by calling, for example, new Date("07/31/2011 4:49:43 PM PDT").toLocaleString(). Chrome's toLocaleString function is broken.