Date info in listings from ftp.kernel.org

Hi all...

Is this a bug in ftp servers ?

-rw-rw-r--   1 korg     korg       867164 Dec 31 05:46 patch-2.6.1-rc1.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 korg     korg          248 Dec 31 05:46 patch-2.6.1-rc1.gz.sign
-rw-rw-r--   1 korg     korg          248 Dec 31 05:46 patch-2.6.1-rc1.sign
-rw-rw-r--   1 korg     korg       749822 Jan  6 06:51 patch-2.6.1-rc2.bz2
-rw-rw-r--   1 korg     korg          248 Jan  6 06:51 patch-2.6.1-rc2.bz2.sign
-rw-rw-r--   1 korg     korg       896088 Jan  6 06:51 patch-2.6.1-rc2.gz

Clients relay on year being present to set it, else it is set to 2004. So they suppose rc1 was released on Dec 31 2004.

Some way to get a listing with full year info ?

TIA

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Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.1-rc1-jam2 (gcc 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-3mdk))

Unix FTP servers present the time information as would be generated by "ls". The following is taken from "info ls":

For files with a time more than six months old or in the future, the timestamp contains the year instead of the time of day.

The Microsoft FTP server acts as you suggest, in that it displays the time if the year is the same.

As far as clients having problems, the good old "mirror" is able to deal with this fine. I suspect others are also able to deal with this.

I've even been as gross as to start up Internet Explorer, and enable "Folder Mode for FTP sites", and that gets the year correct.

Not for a while directory, but you can for a particular file:

ftp> modtime README-2.6
README-2.6 12/18/2003 15:48:24 GMT

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