Request: preserve date/time on FTP upload

jdmarch · Post by *jdmarch » 2003-09-11, 19:14 UTC

Request: preserve date/time on FTP upload

It's an option for download, but apparently not for upload.

Thanks,
Jonathan

André Martin · Post by *André Martin » 2003-09-11, 19:48 UTC

AFAIK the FTP protocol does not allow to set filedate/time

thatswhy there is no option for preserve the date/time on FTP upload...

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-09-11, 20:01 UTC

Exactly! But TC 6.0 will use the non-standard command MDTM for this in the synchronize dirs tool. This will give an error for servers which do not support the command, but should not cause any harm.

Jonas · Post by *Jonas » 2003-09-11, 20:25 UTC

I'd love a setting at the defined FTP-connection to say with which timezone the server is working, so that I can easyly see how old the file realy is, without calculatin every time. And the result of "compare dirs" (Shift-F2) would get better.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-09-11, 20:33 UTC

That's why MDTM will work for synchronize dirs only for now. In Synchronize dirs, you can set the time zone. I would need to make some big changes to the ftp implementation to make this work also in the normal file windows, so I will probably postpone it to a later version...

jdmarch · Post by *jdmarch » 2003-09-11, 20:40 UTC

In Synchronize dirs, you can set the time zone

That will be great! Thanks!

Jonas · Post by *Jonas » 2003-09-11, 21:10 UTC

That already works in the current version.
But I'd like to see the file-times in my own time... I'm looking forward to future releases