Modifying dates with REBOL

Folks, I did something foolish a few days ago. I moved a whole pile of files off a web server out of the content management system. Then moved them back some days later. Unfortunately I forgot that the php on the web server actually scans the file modified dates of those files to figure out the newest and hence which should be displayed at the top of the web page. Now, the files on my hard drive have the correct date. Yet when I upload them to the web server via FTP, the modified dates are reset to today's date. So it occurred to me that I could somehow alter the modified stamps via ftp after scanning the time stamps off the local files with REBOL. Yet... I can't seem to find any details in REBOL of modifying dates on files, let alone via FTP. Has anyone done this? Regards, Mat.

Mat:

> Yet... I can't seem to find any details in REBOL of modifying dates on > files, let alone via FTP.

Hi Mat, MB> So it occurred to me that I could somehow alter the modified stamps via MB> ftp after scanning the time stamps off the local files with REBOL. MB> Yet... I can't seem to find any details in REBOL of modifying dates on MB> files, let alone via FTP. I don't think this will work over FTP, but it's a start for you. touch: func [ {Set the modification timestamp of the file.} files [file! block!] "The file, or files, you want to stamp" time [date!] "The date and time to stamp them with" /local rd-only ][ ; We have to turn off the read-only attribute if it's on. foreach item compose [(files)] [ rd-only: not get-modes item 'owner-write set-modes to-file item [owner-write: true modification-date: time] if rd-only [set-modes item [owner-write: false]] ] ] -- Gregg

was just thinking.. in windows 2k and up cant you just map this as a virtual drive (to the ftp site) and then have rebol treat it as a normal drive thus making Gregg's code work fine? Anyone done this before? I know I use ftp's as virtual drives for some dev work.. James. Gregg wrote:

Hi James, James> was just thinking.. in windows 2k and up cant you just map this as a virtual James> drive (to the ftp site) and then have rebol treat it as a normal drive thus James> making Gregg's code work fine? Anyone done this before? I know I use ftp's James> as virtual drives for some dev work.. That's an idea. However at this point I have a serious suspicion that you can't set dates with the FTP protocol. I've checked a few FTP clients and none of them allow setting of dates on files, only changing the flags and so on. Regards, Mat.

Hi Mat,

> That's an idea. However at this point I have a serious suspicion that > you can't set dates with the FTP protocol. I've checked a few FTP > clients and none of them allow setting of dates on files, only > changing the flags and so on.