[wellylug] Daylight Savings and Samba Timestamps

[David Antliff]

Phillip Rose wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your reply Phillip, I will bear this in mind.

I did make some progress on my own today - I determined that restarting 
the Samba daemon (smbd) got rid of the problem, so this is a viable 
workaround for now (as long as I remember next time).

I am still trying to find a final solution but the cause seems to be 
that Samba only takes notice of the daylight savings state when it is 
started, so if DST rolls around (or finishes) and smbd isn't restarted, 
it will incorrectly think it still needs to modify the offset.

However I am at a loss to explain why this doesn't affect far more people.

-- 
David.