[wellylug] Daylight Savings and Samba Timestamps

[Phillip Rose]

At 09:38 04/10/05 +1300, David Antliff wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>We have a Redhat 9.0 file server running Samba and several clients running 
>Windows 2000. Under normal circumstances this works fine. However with the 
>advent of daylight savings an interesting problem has developed:
>
>1. the date, time, timezone and DS state on the Win2k host is correct.
>2. the date, time, timezone and DS state on the Redhat server is correct.
>3. when a file is copied by a win2k user from a win2k host to the redhat 
>server (via samba) the final date on the file (as it resides on the Redhat 
>filesystem) is an hour early compared to other files created locally at 
>the same time.

A wild guess: What do your hwclocks say compared to the system (`date`)
time? I seem to recall that Windoze systems have a different method for
setting the time from Linux systems (local time vs. UTC + offset?). You
might have to reboot your Windoze machine to see what the BIOS clock sez.

--Phillip