[Samba] Re: Wintertime/summertime difference - Samba servers show wrong time ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:05:30PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> 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.

Jeremy.