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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-04-17 23:00 -------
Well, it may not have been fixed at the time I marked it so, but I believe that
with my most recent changes of this weekend, it is.

Mr. Mortenson:
Here is the story as far as the numeric date format goes.  Back in January, in
response to several infrequent but persistent complaints about being unable to
parse dates written with month names in languages other than English (leaving
aside for the moment languages like Japanese which require encoding changes as
you know), a new system based on the new class FTPClientConfig was created. 
This allows, among other things, a user to pass to the parser a SimpleDateFormat
string to parse a date not formatted in the "standard" way, as well as to pass
in a set of month names other than those of the locale in which the client is
operating.

Somewhat later, a user informed us (it was a first for us) that there now
existed unix FTP servers that used a numeric date format.  Thinking that I had
fortuitously solved that problem without even realizing it, I pointed him at the
new code.  Turned out, it didn't quite work - the user could pass in the new
date format, but there was another piece of code that pulled out the Date
portion of the listing and sent it to the DateFormat for parsing.  That part did
not work with the all-numeric date format.  After the fixes of this weekend, it
now does.  This is why the bug is marked fixed.

However, it's not seamless.  The default date format is still the classic "MMM
dd yyyy" one, not the yyyy-MM-dd that you need to handle all-numeric formatted
dates.  There is a backward-compatibility problem with the servers that do not
use the all-numeric format.  It is my fond wish that the all-numeric format will
be adopted soon and become ubiquitous.  Then we can think about changing the
default behavior.  But for now, if you construct the parser with the constructor
that takes an FTPClientConfig properly initialized you should be able to get
this to work.

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