Topic: Daylight Saving

[Laurence Griffiths]

I don't know whether this is a bug or whether I am doing something wrong and so I'll post this and see whether anybody else has had the same problem.

I am running a number of SME V5 servers on our LAN. One of them acts as an NTP time server and this machine in turn synchronises with the time server provided by our ISP. Last Sunday, we moved into daylight saving time. I checked up in the Server Manager to see whether the time had been advanced one hour. It had! I then checked whether our connection policies had reflected this change. They had!

And now for the crazy bit.... I am using a Windows NT4 workstation which is correctly set for daylight saving. If I create a file on the SME V5 server and then look at the time created, I am told that I created it one hour ago. So it seems to me that Samba isn't noticing the daylight saving changes.

Has anybody else had this experience? And does anybody have a solution?

Thanks

Laurence Griffiths

[trevorb]

Is the NT4 box running under the Year2000 timezone fix?

I seem to remember that there was a bug in that that would appear this year at DS time and that you should be back on the standard GMT +10:00 setting.

Hope this helps

Trevor B

[Laurence Griffiths]

Trevor,

Thanks for that. It was the NT4 computer getting a bit confused. I tried one fo the 2000Pro computers and there was no problem. So I then went and fiddled around with the NT4 time settings and set it to automatically adjust for daylight saving. I then re-set the time and now everything is OK.

Regards

Laurence Griffiths