V8 currently doesn't seem to call tzset on Linux at all. It might require updating the Sandbox to make such a call possible in Chrome [1]. Probably also a good idea to make sure to do this tzset call only on the affected Android platforms, as going through the sandbox has some cost.

[1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/content/zygote/zygote_main_linux.cc

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rmcilroy@ can you please evaluate?

This has been untouched for a year and is not on my radar. Is this still a priority? Technically it seems a bit complex due to sandbox concerns, so we would have to budget the work.

I don't think the priority has changed, although it was never high priority. It'll become obsolete in maybe 5 years when Android >= O reaches saturation :P