Showing posts with label vsftp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vsftp. Show all posts

Friday, 16 January 2009

vsftp is reporting times as GMT

It has baffled me for days that my ftp (vsftp) server shows
file timestamps in the wrong timezone: UTC
After some searching I found that there is a hidden option
for setting it.
(it isn't in the default config file /etc/vsftpd.conf)

Q) Help! vsftpd is reporting times as GMT times and not local times!
A) This behaviour can be changed with the setting "use_localtime=YES

After adding that to the end of /etc/vsftpd.conf, and doing:
sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
it works now!
Now why isn't this the default???
http://www.flux.org/pipermail/linux/2004-June/015484.html
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html

This got me thinking is it some sort of a standard that ftp servers return timestamps in utc?