FTP Time/Date

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Dave Cragg wrote:

> At 4:35 pm -0500 6/1/03, Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com wrote:
> 
>> The following is a FTP dir listing retrieved from a Win-NT FTP site using
>> Rev1.1.1. I noticed this anomaly as I was parsing out the Time... The
>> "Year" is where Time usually is. Why are the returned results 
>> inconsistent?
>> Is there another way to get time/date of remote files with Rev?
>>
>> ------ 1 owner group  742052 Jan  3 18:54 3814N_X12515_067.TIF
>> ------ 1 owner group 5318364 Jan  5  0:53 3814N_X76004_067.TIF
>> ------ 1 owner group 1816538 Oct  3  2002 BLACKWOOD_X12345.TIF
>> d----- 1 owner group       0 Oct  8  2002 MaxTone
>> ------ 1 owner group   66482 Oct 22  2002 STAMPS_QA_K.TIF
>> d----- 1 owner group       0 Nov 24  2002 To Archive
> 
> 
> I think you'll find this to be consistently inconsistent. :) For 
> example, I see similar results with the ls command from the terminal in 
> Mac OS X. My guess is that the year is displayed when it isn't the 
> current year, and the time when it is the current year. Perhaps one of 
> the Unix experts can confirm or otherwise.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
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Dave's "guess" is correct ... this is basic UNIX 101 behavior.



Regards,

John Theobald