[wellylug] Daylight Savings and Samba Timestamps

[Nigel Roberts]

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 00:05:46 +1300, David Harrison wrote:

> 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  :-)

It must be that most autralians don't have daylight savings :)