>>I thought the same way and looked it a little bit today. Though it sounded really weird to me here is what I have found. You use ListDirectoryDetails and parse the datetime part. But if it is in current year, directory listing has hour:minute instead of a year. If it is in another year then it lists the year. Here is a listing w/o parsin further:

The ListDirectoryDetails method returns two different formats based on the type of FTP server. Yours was against a Unix server, right?