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+FTP Time-Stamping Internals
+===========================
+
+ In theory, FTP time-stamping works much the same as HTTP, only FTP
+has no headers--time-stamps must be received from the directory
+listings.
+
+ For each directory files must be retrieved from, Wget will use the
+`LIST' command to get the listing. It will try to analyze the listing,
+assuming that it is a Unix `ls -l' listing, and extract the
+time-stamps. The rest is exactly the same as for HTTP.
+
+ Assumption that every directory listing is a Unix-style listing may
+sound extremely constraining, but in practice it is not, as many
+non-Unix FTP servers use the Unixoid listing format because most (all?)
+of the clients understand it. Bear in mind that RFC959 defines no
+standard way to get a file list, let alone the time-stamps. We can
+only hope that a future standard will define this.
+
+ Another non-standard solution includes the use of `MDTM' command
+that is supported by some FTP servers (including the popular
+`wu-ftpd'), which returns the exact time of the specified file. Wget
+may support this command in the future.
+
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