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  • Started 22 years ago by James D. Hanson
  • Latest reply 22 years ago from Jim Matthews
  • James D. Hanson Member

    With Fetch 4.0, I downloaded a file from a remote server to my Macintosh. The "Date Modified" in the Finder window shows "Fri, Jan 1, 1904, 12:00 AM". How can I get it to show either the date and time of download, or the date and time it originally had on the server?

    Posted 22 years ago #

  • Jim Matthews Administrator

    I've seen a couple of reports of that problem, and in both cases it turned out that the server was not Y2K compliant. Could you post the contents of the Fetch Transcript window after you download a file and it is assigned that modification date? I'm specifically interested in the response to the MDTM command.

    Thanks,

    Jim Matthews
    Fetch Softworks

    Posted 22 years ago #

  • James D. Hanson Member

    Here is the Fetch Transcript window for downloading the file iftout. It showed up dated 1904.

    Jim Hanson

    [System Version = 0x910
    Connecting to ftp.physics.auburn.edu port 21 (7/6/01 4:26:57 PM)
    220 electro FTP server (Version 4.119 Thu Jul 16 21:41:46 CDT 1998) ready.
    ADAT
    500 'ADAT Hi there, do you support security?': command not understood.
    USER hanson
    331 Password required for hanson.
    PASS
    230 User hanson logged in.
    SYST
    215 UNIX Type: L8
    PWD
    257 "/home/hanson" is current directory.
    MACB ENABLE
    500 'MACB ENABLE': command not understood.
    PWD
    257 "/home/hanson" is current directory.
    PORT 131,204,44,200,137,227
    200 PORT command successful.
    LIST
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
    total 3154
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Apr 14 1993 Fortran_Sources
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jan 13 1993 Fortran_Test_Codes
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jul 18 2000 LSODE
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 May 1 15:06 MacTransfer
    drwx------ 5 hanson users 512 Sep 18 1997 StdMapInterp
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Aug 20 1999 SunWS_config
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Aug 30 1994 Tedi_doc
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 10332 Sep 2 1998 a2ps.man
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Oct 31 1997 abstracts_test
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 hanson users 24 Aug 18 1998 anybody -> /net/torsun/home/anybody
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 857 Oct 7 1997 app.speakers.list
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jul 1 1996 bench
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jul 31 1995 bench.stuff
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Oct 19 2000 bin
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 90 Sep 8 1998 cpupie
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Aug 1 2000 ctc
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Feb 28 1996 dsc
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jan 9 1997 dxf.test
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Nov 4 1999 ellipi
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Apr 22 1997 frantic
    drwxr-xr-x 18 hanson users 512 Oct 17 2000 fs
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Jun 9 1999 ft
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 hanson users 26 Jan 7 1999 ftp.space -> /home/ftp/pub/users/hanson
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 hanson users 1075680 May 7 1997 gmeta.n8h2_95cm_6kG
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Aug 1 2000 gptest
    drwx------ 26 hanson users 512 Jun 26 16:05 ift
    drwxrwxrwx 2 hanson users 512 Apr 5 1999 inbox
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Aug 25 1997 internetII
    -rwx------ 1 hanson users 275 Jan 28 1998 jdh
    drwxrwxrwx 2 hanson users 512 Aug 18 1998 jtest
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Aug 30 1994 kamgap
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Aug 26 1996 lapack
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 May 21 1998 lapack2
    -rw-r--r-- 1 hanson users 129503 Aug 29 1996 lapack2.f.Z
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 1536 Dec 10 1996 lapack2.ift.1
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jul 28 2000 lib
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Mar 3 2000 magtop
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Oct 19 2000 man
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jun 15 1999 misc.ps.files
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jul 12 1996 mma
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 170 Aug 27 1998 mmabug
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jan 13 1997 mmm2
    drwxr-xr-x 5 hanson users 512 Apr 10 18:14 neut
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Jul 8 1997 nsurf
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Jun 15 1999 old_web_pages
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Feb 4 1998 perld
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Feb 12 1997 pgrd
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 hanson users 205920 May 7 1997 prout.ncarg
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Nov 13 1995 ps601_f95
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Apr 9 1996 ps711_w94
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jun 21 11:16 pscrap
    drwxrwxrwx 3 hanson users 512 Jul 19 2000 pub
    drwxr-xr-x 4 hanson users 512 Jan 6 2001 public_html
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Aug 8 1996 rtest
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 hanson users 75035 Apr 7 1997 sad.tex
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 4280 Oct 22 1997 sample.tex
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Feb 28 1996 scripts
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Oct 19 2000 share
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Feb 24 2000 sher98
    drwxr-x--- 14 hanson users 512 May 14 1998 speed_test
    drwx------ 11 hanson users 512 Sep 20 1995 splines
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Aug 18 2000 st2
    drwxr-xr-x 6 hanson users 512 Aug 30 1994 standard_map
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 1024 Jan 20 2000 suncrap
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jul 31 2000 test.for
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 3072 Jun 7 1999 test.ift
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Dec 10 1999 test.vmec
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Feb 27 1998 test2
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 527 Nov 7 1997 texput.log
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Jul 1 1998 tocarn
    drwxr-x--- 3 hanson users 512 Jul 27 1992 tv80
    drwx------ 7 hanson users 512 Dec 2 1999 vmec
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 hanson users 11 Sep 10 1998 www.space -> /opt/htdocs
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 12 Sep 26 2000 zzznew
    226 Transfer complete.
    CWD ift
    250 CWD command successful.
    PWD
    257 "/home/hanson/ift" is current directory.
    PORT 131,204,44,200,136,103
    200 PORT command successful.
    LIST
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
    total 48
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jun 19 1997 ift62
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Jun 19 1997 ift62b
    drwxr-xr-x 12 hanson users 512 Apr 28 1998 ift63
    drwxr-x--- 3 hanson users 512 Jan 20 2000 ift65
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Jun 19 1997 ift66
    drwx------ 12 hanson users 512 May 19 1998 ift67
    drwxr-xr-x 2 hanson users 512 Jun 19 1997 ift68
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 May 19 1998 ift69
    drwx------ 11 hanson users 512 May 19 1998 ift70
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Jun 19 1997 ift71
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Apr 24 1998 ift72
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Aug 21 1997 ift74
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Apr 24 1998 ift76
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Mar 8 1999 ift77
    drwx------ 5 hanson users 512 Jun 1 1998 ift78
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jun 10 1999 ift79
    drwx------ 6 hanson users 512 Jan 6 2000 ift80
    drwx------ 7 hanson users 512 Jan 18 2000 ift82
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jan 28 2000 ift83
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jul 15 2000 ift84
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Sep 28 2000 ift85
    drwx------ 5 hanson users 512 Jun 22 10:04 ift86
    drwx------ 3 hanson users 512 Jun 26 15:27 ift87
    drwx------ 4 hanson users 512 Jul 3 12:11 ift88
    226 Transfer complete.
    CWD ift88
    250 CWD command successful.
    PWD
    257 "/home/hanson/ift/ift88" is current directory.
    PORT 131,204,44,200,68,201
    200 PORT command successful.
    LIST
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
    total 14
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 6144 Jul 2 17:59 oandf
    drwx------ 2 hanson users 512 Jul 5 11:39 runs
    226 Transfer complete.
    CWD runs
    250 CWD command successful.
    PWD
    257 "/home/hanson/ift/ift88/runs" is current directory.
    PORT 131,204,44,200,236,113
    200 PORT command successful.
    LIST
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
    total 10014
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 3322 Jul 3 12:12 cth12
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 2880 Jul 5 11:39 gmeta
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 89066 Jul 5 11:29 h12c1.ibl
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 203257 Jul 5 11:39 h12c2.mma
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 261910 Jul 3 12:14 h12mf1.mma
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 261910 Jul 3 12:14 h12mf2.mma
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 261910 Jul 3 12:14 h12mf3.mma
    -rw------- 1 hanson users 94835 Jul 5 11:39 iftout
    -rw-r--r-- 1 hanson users 1127 Jul 3 12:14 in.cth12.b1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 hanson users 336 Jul 5 11:28 in.cth12.c1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 hanson users 323 Jul 5 11:39 in.cth12.c2
    -rwx------ 1 hanson users 3894872 Jul 3 12:13 xift88
    226 Transfer complete.
    SIZE iftout
    213 96148
    MDTM iftout
    213 191010705163948
    PORT 131,204,44,200,29,50
    200 PORT command successful.
    RETR iftout
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for iftout (94835 bytes).
    226 Transfer complete.
    Download completed at 7/6/01 4:27:42 PM (state == RGET_RETRIEVING)
    NOOP
    200 NOOP command successful.

    Posted 22 years ago #

  • Jim Matthews Administrator

    Here's the problem:

    MDTM iftout
    213 191010705163948

    That long number is supposed to be a date and time, in the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. But instead of starting 2001 it starts 19101, because of a Y2K bug in the server.

    I will make changes to Fetch so that it will ignore bogus dates like this in the next release. In the meantime the solution is to update the server software to a version that is Y2K compliant.

    Jim Matthews
    Fetch Softworks

    Posted 22 years ago #

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