[wellylug] Daylight Savings and Samba Timestamps

[Nigel Roberts]

Hi Wellington,

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 10:04:19 +1300, Nigel Roberts wrote:

> 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 :)

Oh my bad, they do, just later than us.