FTP directory listing showing seconds

[Richard Gaskin]

Pierre Sahores wrote:

> Bonjour Richard,
>
> This work fine for me :
>
> function FTP_Dir_Refresh active_path
>     set cursor to watch
>     libURLSetFTPListCommand "NLST"
>     put FTP_Server_Address & active_path & "/" into tServer
>     put URL tServer into tData
>     replace crlf with cr in tData
>     replace lf with cr in tData
>     libURLSetFTPListCommand "LIST"
>     get URL tServer
>     filter it with "*" & toUpper(char 1 to 4 of the label of btn
> "b_blog_category") & "*_?????_*.xml?"
>     return it
> end FTP_Dir_Refresh
>
> Does this help ?

Thank you for posting that, but it doesn't get around the built-in 
limitations of FTP:  the RFC says that the LIST command will return the 
date in this format:

    Mar 28 14:24

..or if older than six months (possibly longer, depending on server 
config) it'll just return the year where the time is:

    Mar 29 2008

My desire to keep all the logic client-side is for fairly trivial 
reasons, so using a CGI to get the info I need from the server won't 
kill me, and will give it to me down to the second, which is what I'm after.

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> Le 10 avr. 10 à 21:29, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
>
>> The FTP 'LIST' command sucks. It only shows mod dates down to the
>> minute, and only for those files modified within the last six
>> months; earlier than that and you only get the day.
>>
>> On the desktop of course we enjoy being able to get time stamps down
>> to the second.  Nice.
>>
>> Is there some obscure FTP command I've overlooked which can get a
>> list of files showing mod dates down to the second?
>>
>> I may have to use a CGI for this project, but I'd love a solution
>> that can keep everything client-side if possible.
>>
>> TIA -
>>