In general, FTP can't do this. Some FTP
clients (wget, for example), can try to
fetch and interpret a directory listing from
the server, and set the date-time accordingly
when it fetches a file.
Because so many FTP servers use a UNIX-like
"ls -l" listing format, which tends to trade
mm:ss for yyyy whan a file gets old, this is
not a very reliable method. On the other
end, not all fancy FTP clients can make sense
of a VMS-style directory listing.
Everything's complicated.
If accurate date-time data are valuable, it
would be much safer to use something like
Zip to archive the files, then transfer the
archive, and, finally, unpack the archive on
the destination system.
> Are you transtering from [..]
Better yet, if you don't like the Zip method,
on which system is the FTP client, and on
which is the FTP server? Then, which way are
the files moving, to the client or from the
client?
I believe that some relatively new FTP RFC
supports this sort of thing, but finding
clients and servers which can do it will
probably be difficult.
