That's Powershell in the Windows world.
Powershell is exactly what bash should be (and this person wants). Their time would have better spent using and improving the pash project (open source Powershell on Mono): https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash
> P.S. As noted in [link], Racket programs build and run much slower than Go programs.
Tor is not to blame here, and gzip or most webservers probably neither. It's an unforseen side effect by a combination of tools.
The article provides a script to test if a server reveals the date and timezone or not.