>>> It's funny you should comment on this - I was in the middle >>> of moving to the Samba4 way of handling times and timezones >>> (back porting the Samba4 code to Samba3) to fix the timezone >>> problems people have. I was planning to get this into 3.0.21. >>> >>> Would this fix the problem ? I'm expecting so, but would >>> appreciate more feedback. >>> >>> I'll look back for the patch to remove the kludge GMT, but >>> I'd rather just remove it entirely and clean up the code. >> >> In a follow up to this - I'd like to get rid of the "time offset" >> parameter in 3.0.21 as part of the cleanup. Here is the definition : >> >> time offset (G) >> This parameter is a setting in minutes to add to >> the normal GMT to local time conversion. This is useful if >> you are serving a lot of PCs that have incorrect daylight >> saving time handling. >> >> I won't remove the parameter, just the effect it has in the >> timezone code. >> >> Please comment if you're using this parameter. > > Of course not.
Things are not so clear-cut as I thought. The patch works, but there seems to be another interaction with Linux setting for the hardware clock: UTC vs. local time. I will test it more thorougly on a test machine and post again. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
