gftp time display question

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

I'm sure there's a logical explanation for this, but right now this
looks like a bug in gftp...

When a download a file from a distant ftp server using gftp, its
date/time is supposed to be set on the receiving system to match that of
the source. Unfortunately what I'm seeing in gftp's local directory
display are their dates/times in GMT. The local offset is not applied to
the local directory view.

For example, if I log onto my big workstation's FTP server using a plain
old command line client and go to the FC3 directory containing the ISOs,
I'll see:

-rw-r--r--  1 500  500 79908864 Nov 04 09:59 FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso

But when I log onto that same directory using gftp I see the following:

FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso  79,908,864 doc doc Wed Nov 3 21:59:00 2004 -rw-r--r--

The RTCs on both systems are set to GMT, with timezone offsets of
CST6CDT. gftp is displaying raw dates/times referenced to the RTC
without applying the offset.

This is wrong, isn't it?

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov


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