[wellylug] Daylight Savings and Samba Timestamps

[David Harrison]

On 4/10/2005, at 10:39 PM, David Antliff wrote:
>
> 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.

Looking at this link you are not alone in your observation:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-August/108969.html

It probably is a problem everyone has but is never noticed because we  
are all so tired from loosing an hours sleep  :-)


David