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JMB
3/31/2005 7:51:02 AM
Hello,
When clients access our FTP site they no longer seeing the correct date
format when doing a dir command. This is causing a mainframe application to
error.

The old format was
filesize Month Date Year filename

The new format is
filesize Month Date Time filename

We are running IIS 5.0 and are using Unix directory listings.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Alun Jones [MSFT]
3/31/2005 9:17:48 AM
This is correct behaviour - older files are displayed with Month, Date,
Year, newer files are displayed with Month, Date, Time. This behaviour is
present on the Unix systems whose listing format many FTP clients are set up
to decode. You will need to take account of this in your mainframe client
application.

You might also choose to use the MS-DOS style listing instead, as this
includes complete information on every file.

Alun.
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JMB
3/31/2005 10:07:04 AM
Thanks Alun,
I have another question..What do you exactly mean by "older files?" A text
file is created daily at midnight. This file is listed as follows.
filesize Month Date Time filename
If I manually copy a file that was created in 2004 into that directory it
displays lists as..
filesize Month Date Year filename


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Alun Jones [MSFT]
3/31/2005 2:17:29 PM
Any file whose year is the current year will display its time; any file
whose year is not the current one will display its year.

Alun.
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