[Samba] Smbmount and daily savings time shifted timestamps?

[Gabe Martin-Dempesy]

Background:
I use rsync to shuffles files around from my production server and  
testing server.  The testing server's central file share (the one  
that the production server pulls from) is a smbmount from an internal  
file server (OSX 10.4, but this is irrelevant as you'll see).  I had  
to switch from NFS to Samba after the 10.4 upgrade due to their new  
NFS implementation breaking readdir().  After doing this, all my  
rsync's from the test server (on the smbmount directory) to the  
production server  started listing nearly every file in any directory  
I'd sync.  Rsync builds its transfer list from file sizes and  
*timestamps*.


What's happening:
On smbmount'd shares, files created during the winter have their time  
stamp listed as one hour earlier as they are on the actual servers.   
This is happening not only on the OSX 10.4 box to  the production  
server, but also if the *production server* does a local mount (eg:  
"mount -t smbfs -U username //127.0.0.1/username /blah") of some  
share, such as a home directory.  Here's some sample output:

-- outputs from the production server connecting to 127.0.0.1  --
In the smbmount:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 27613 Jan 20 08:16 2004 1040EZ.pdf*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 11044 May 11 09:44 payfuse.tcpdump*

in the smbclient:
   2004 1040EZ.pdf                     27613  Thu Jan 20 09:16:54 2005
   payfuse.tcpdump                          11044  Wed May 11  
09:44:42 2005

In my actual home dir:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gabebug mis 27613 Jan 20 09:16 2004 1040EZ.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gabebug gabebug 11044 May 11 09:44 payfuse.tcpdump


-- and some examples from the example cited in "Background", the 10.4  
server to the production server --
Locally, on the OSX Samba server:
-rw-rw-r-- + 1 rachelbu mudbug 2266 Mar 21 09:33 damon1.jpg

A separate random OSX client, over AFP:
-rwxr--r-- 1 gabebug gabebug 2266 Mar 21 09:33 damon1.jpg*

Production server, over `smbclient`:
damon1.jpg 2266 Mon Mar 21 09:33:23 2005

Production server, over `smbmount` (mount -t smbfs):
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 2266 Mar 21 08:33 damon1.jpg*


This behavior is obviously only occurring in smbmount, and smbclient  
isn't affected.  This also isn't a reaction between OSX and the  
production server, as it occurs just the same locally.

The production client is running Linux kernel version 2.4.29 and  
Samba 3.0.13.  These are a minor version behind, but I saw nothing  
mentioning timestamps/DST in either changelogs.

The /etc/localtime on all of my servers is set to /usr/share/zoneinfo/ 
US/Central

I'm unclear if this is a kernel VFS/SMBFS bug, a smbmount bug, or  
some configuration flag I haven't run into, but either way the  
inconsistency between smbmount and smbclient is concerning.