[Cyberduck-trac] [Cyberduck] #1205: Leap year and a server which does not show year part of timestamp

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#1205: Leap year and a server which does not show year part of timestamp
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 Reporter:  masui   |       Owner:  dkocher
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:         
Component:  ftp     |     Version:  2.8b1  
 Severity:  normal  |    Keywords:         
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 Recently I noticed that Cyberduck does not list specific files on my home
 ftp server.[[br]]
 I found that every file which is not listed has the date of "02/29/2004"
 as its timestamp.

 Ordinary ftp servers (including ftpd of Mac OS X) return timestamp in a
 result of ls command, like:[[br]]
 "-rw-------  1 masui  masui  3147470848 Feb 29  2004 afo.mpg"

 However, some ftp servers do not show year part of timestamp in directory
 listings, like:[[br]]
 "-rwxr--r--     1 owner      2487305280 Feb 29 12:00 bfo.mpg"

 My home ftp server software is latter one. Is that a defect of the
 software?

 When a file which has timestamp of "02/29/2004 12:00" (see "bfo.mpg"
 above) exists on the server,[[br]]
 Cyberduck treats that information as "02/29/2007 12:00" because the server
 does not report year part[[br]]
 of the timestamp. I think Cyberduck rejects that invalid date and omits
 the file from directory listing.

 I tried to use other kind of ftp clients with the server and found that
 they convert the invalid date of[[br]]
 "02/29/2007" into "03/01/2007". I do not feel date conversion like that is
 good solution.[[br]]
 However, it is also not good that Cyberduck silently ignores a file with
 invalid date.

 Do you have any good idea?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cyberduck.ch/ticket/1205>
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