Confirmed, can see the sun from inside a house, and through my backpack when looking backward.

Confirmed, i shoot that picture in Cherno

I tested this out on the most recent 0.34 patch. I couldn't find a way to get the sun to shine through buildings or terrain, however I did notice it on melee weapons and character models.

Melee weapons, like the axe [1] or fire extinguisher [2] seem to do it all the time as well as the character's hands, such as during the wave animation [3].

If you couldn't see the flare before you raised your weapon [4] then raising it will not make the flare appear [5].

Character models in third person stopped the flare [6], until I moved the camera down so that it was in the grass [7]. Then the flare showed up again, even though it should be blocked by the character.

Looking back through some old screenshots I found an example of the flare coming through a building [8], although this was taken on 21/12/2013 so version 0.30.113860.

Screenshots
[1] http://imgur.com/JjkKCqv
[2] http://imgur.com/U9Qnylc
[3] http://imgur.com/wDQPxus
[4] http://imgur.com/K3y2jcf
[5] http://imgur.com/Zv0sn6v
[6] http://imgur.com/cYbzfwi
[7] http://imgur.com/XGq5lDx
[8] http://imgur.com/WTyLt1v

Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
Intel Core i7 920 2.67GHz
nVidia GTX 480
16GB RAM

Guys I also had this bug, where I could see sun glare through buildings and mountains. What helped me, was strangely totally stupid thing. I removed DayZ SA through steam, reinstalled it, then I updated to latest AMD drivers 14.1 (I have Radeon HD7870 2GB) and voila, I no longer have this problem.
I am not sure it will help other players, but please try it yourself,for me it worked.

EDIT:After a day, this problem returned,I again see sun through objects and hills :-(. I did not change anything,but it simply returned.
My specs i-5 4770K, 8GB DDR3 and Radeon HD7870 2GB, Win7 HP,

Steps to reproduce: for me it's just playing the game, I immediately see it. Must be clear weather though, during storms and raining it is not that visible.

Have been having the same issue. It only happens when my game res is 1920*1080 (100% of my screen) and/or higher.[1] Bug disappears when i increase HDR quality from very low to low, but in this case most objects and ground will not even render.[2] Sun shines even through ground in the night.[3]

My specs:
Win 7 64-bit
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Intel Core i5-2500K 3,30GHz
8GB RAM

GPU drivers up to date
GPU temperature totally ok
DayZ runs at 40–60 FPS with app. medium settings

[1] https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1500x844q90/841/ta5a.png
[2] https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1500x844q90/845/vwc4.png
[3] https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1500x844q90/600/db7e.png

Hey guys,

thank you for the report. We are currently aware of this issue, but we would very much appreciate any reproduction steps to get to the bottom of this. If anyone knows a way of reproducing this issue, please let us know in a note!

Thank you!

Also, thanks goes to R834 for helping with moderating the issue :)

Ok guys did some testing and it appears, that this problem with sun shining through buildings and hills appeared to me ONLY when I changed stuff in cfg files. Try to move your dayz.cfg and *.DayZProfile away from documents/dayz, launch the game and it will create new cfg and profile file. This might fix your sun problem!!

Huh, nice hombre, hopefully that's it. Maybe changing shadow distance caused this.

Confirmed. No changes were made by me in cfg files . this started after teh last update

(translation by google)
Although I had been looking at different terms, I could not find this bug here. So I opened a private, which was now closed with a reference to it here. In order to make these here in the future easier to find, I have tags inserted and my screenshots attached because they again show a different picture of the severity of this bug - for me it is not a small "glow", special much more massive, so I towards sun nothing can be seen.

On the configuration files I have not played around.

It was noticeable that when I changed something in the settings menu on the HDR-switch that the glow then disappeared while until I left the menu again and returned to the game.

v0.44 and 0.45

pc specs: cpu fx8320 3.5ghz, gpu hd7870 2gb, 8gb ram

sun shine is always there (inside forests, buildings, .. even the moonshine is way too high.

Moderator, keep in mind we should all be having this issues with HDR in very low, because HDR takes too much fps, and i also have an empty world bug due to having it on low.

I think this shine should be reduced a lot.

Pictures attached

v0.49

pc specs: cpu fx6300 3.5ghz, gpu R9 280X 3gb, 16gb ram

Sun "glare" through all solid objects (walls, trees, fences, hills, mountain, etc...)

This has only occurred since the 0.49 update for me.

Occurs in both 1st and 3rd person and on every server I have ever been on.