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Re: Preserve file date/time
Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello,
When retrieving data from a remote server to the iSeries, is it possible
to preserve the file's date/time from the remote server? If a file is
dated 08:00, can I retrieve it and have it remain 08:00 instead of 12:08
when I retrieved it?
Sometimes. The FTP_mtime() API from FTPAPI can return the "date last
modified" from some FTP servers. (Not all of them support this, however.)
You can then use the utime() API (supplied with OS/400 V3R1 or later) to
set your file to match.
If you can't use FTP_mtime() you might be able to make it work using
FTP_dir() to get the directory listing and extract teh time from that
listing. However, I strongly recommend that you do not use this approach,
because there's no standard for the format of the data in the FTP_dir()
listing. Every server's information can be different, so you can
potentially end up with code that works with only particular FTP servers.
Good luck!
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