[Q] ftplib: How to compare date?

[Daehyok Shin]

What I want is not the local time of systems,
but the creation time of files.


"Siggy Brentrup" <bsb at winnegan.de> wrote in message
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> "Daehyok Shin" <DSHIN at nc.rr.com> writes:
>
> > I like to compare the creation dates of two files using ftplib.
> > But, I cannot find any function to get the date of remote files.
> > How can I do it?
>
> Try this:
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> >>> ftp=ftplib.FTP('localhost')
> >>> print ftp.welcome
> 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server (Debian) [keuner.winnegan.de]
> >>> welcome=ftp.login('me','xyzzy')
> >>> ftp.sendcmd('MDTM /etc/passwd')
> '213 20010131081337'
>
> AFAIK, ftp servers return UTC.
>
> HTH
>   Siggy
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