Thanks, I did not think it would be a "supported" feature. It looks like the server will always be a M$ variety, and I do not know of a command on WinX that will allow the timestamp to be altered.

Glenn
>>It is not that I don't know the correct time for that timezone, but rather I donn't know how to change the timestamp on the FTP server using VFP client FTP software.
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>>Glenn
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>>>>>Is there any way of controlling the destination timestamp with FTP? I am sending files from a client (W98/2000/ME/XP) to a server (w2000/XP) and need to preserve the client timestamp on the server. Any ideas???
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>>>>>Glenn
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>>>>Why not use additional info file (maybe XML) to check the timestamp (I think you need to check version)?
>>>>What about different clients in different timezones?
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>>>When I need to account for timezones, I usually store the GMT time and the timezone offset - that way you can figure out the time regardless of timezone. If Glenn places these two bits of info into the record file, and knows the timezone/offset of the client's location, he should be all set.
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>Glenn,
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>The only way I see is to remotely execute a command after the transfer.
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>Something like the unix touch command, no doubt (rather) easily found on the web if you havn't got it alreeady
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>The touch.exe has to be on the remote site. If not you will have to transfer it first
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>After the transfer something like
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>local cmd, ResultHandle
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>cmd =  'site exec c:\command.com /c touch 200212311859.59 \dir1\dir2\file.ext' + chr(0)
>ResultHandle = 0
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>ftpCommand(ftpHandle, 0, FTP_TRANSFER_TYPE_ASCII, @cmd, @ResultHandle )
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>You can even transfer all files while building an xxx.bat file which holds all the touch commands.
>Afterwards, transfer the xxx.bat to the remote site and have it executed
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>Let me know if you need further help
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>another possiblility is to zip/xcopy the files, transfer them and unzip them with a .bat
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>3rd Possibility: zip locally, zip2exe to eg files.exe , transfer, remotely execute the files.exe, delete remote files.exe