times off by one hour

Norbert Püschel Pueschel.Norbert at Walzbarren-VAW.ne.uunet.de
Mon Aug 17 12:05:08 GMT 1998


Andrew Tridgell schrieb:
> 
> > The problem I described with the print job times being a day off still
> > exists (and is apparently completely independant from the timezone
> > setting of the NT box).
> 
> I've now had a chance to look at this (and have reproduced it) and it
> appears to be a NT bug.

Hardly a surprise ...

> I think that NT4 displays the date incorrectly when parsing the ipc
> response. We could add a ugly hack to add one day in that function but
> I don't think we should.
> 

I agree

> When NT4 talks to a NT server I presume it uses different calls
> (perhaps pipe calls?) which would explain NT server "getting it
> right".

Grmpf. I trust Samba will someday support these calls, too ...

Thanks for the accurate analysis.

Bye,
  N. Pueschel


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