On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:54:01PM +0400, Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> lftp provides the variable "ftp:timezone" which, as far as I
> understand, sets the time zone of the ftp server. However, I don't see
> any effect of this variable.

It is only used when parsing output of LIST command. If the server
supports MDTM command, timezone is never actually used.

> The default value of ftp:timezone is "GMT" which, I think, is a bad
> choice for the default value. How many ftp servers in the GMT timezone

Well, many anonymous ftp servers miss /etc/localtime file in their
chrooted environment, resulting in GMT timezone.

-- 
   Alexander.

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