ftp folder creation date

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Re: ftp folder creation date by Anonymous Monk on Nov 19, 2012 at 14:27 UTC
Please help me on this. How do you think we can help, what do you think we can do?	[reply]
Re: ftp folder creation date by aitap (Chaplain) on Nov 19, 2012 at 17:30 UTC
That's not so easy. FTP has two ways of transferring file lists: NLST, which transfers only names (and is used in `$ftp->ls`) and LIST (which can be got using `$ftp->dir`), which is human-readable and is not described in RFC. The second one can contain the needed dates, but you can have troubles decoding it. (see the RFC 959 for details) Use Net::FTP::File to get parsed values from LIST command. Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: ftp folder creation date by Anonymous Monk on Nov 20, 2012 at 07:24 UTC
fstat is listed as a TODO, so not exactly useful	[reply]
Re^3: ftp folder creation date by aitap (Chaplain) on Nov 20, 2012 at 17:35 UTC
Tried to connect to my own FTP server using a commandline ftp client, couldn't get anything looking like creation date (only modification date was present) even using `STAT` command. Now I doubt whether this is possible at all. Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: ftp folder creation date by afoken (Parson) on Nov 21, 2012 at 18:34 UTC