Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread David Kerber
Yes, I understood what you meant, but that is only 1 part of what I need to do: I need to retrieve the files from the ftp server before I can "touch" them, and that won't work either because of the leap year bug. So I retrieve them with a manual ftp client, and then use a gui file date/time c

Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread Adam Gordon
I mean a cron job to touch the files and change the date David kerber wrote: The problem is that ftp.getfiles won't even retrieve the files from the server! It sees them as invalid because of the date issue. So I have to retrieve them manually. Yeah, I could script up that part as well,

Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-190 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-188 - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EM

Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread David kerber
The problem is that ftp.getfiles won't even retrieve the files from the server! It sees them as invalid because of the date issue. So I have to retrieve them manually. Yeah, I could script up that part as well, but I don't think it's worth it for now. Adam Gordon wrote: Dave- Just set a

Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread Adam Gordon
Dave- Just set a cron job to do it every minute or (some other interval) and then you don't have to worry about it - just don't forget to remove the job tonight. --adam David kerber wrote: Yeah, that's what I've done so far today, but the files come in continuously throughout the day for a

Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread David kerber
Yeah, that's what I've done so far today, but the files come in continuously throughout the day for a total of 1000 or so, and we need to process them as they come in, so I've been letting them build up and doing it every hour or so. It's a pain, and I hope they get this fixed sometime before

Re: Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread Adam Gordon
Short of downloading/patching the source code and redeploying, just a stab in the dark here, but maybe just execute "touch -d " in the offending directory/directories. There's no recursive flag though, bummer. At least it'll only be a problem for 12 more hours (MST). HTH, --adam David kerb

Leap-year problem with commons-net

2008-02-29 Thread David kerber
I have found that the commons-net ftp.listfiles() fails to get files whose date on the server is on feb 29. Googling indicates that this a known problem (at least since this morning), but I haven't found a quick fix. Does anybody know of one? D