Faulty modified time of ftp accessed files and directories

[LOVEJesus]

I use Xubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (xenial) with the official provided vsftpd package (3.0.3-3ubuntu2).
I installed it and added SSL/TLS Certificates.

I could connect to the FTP Server in a secure connection without problems. I could also perform FTP commands, but the modification times of many (not all) files and folders on the accessed server was faulty: some files/folder had the right date but the time was set to 00:00.
The faulty times were mostly on folders and files not on the root level of the connected directory, but on the children directories.

NOTE: This was not a typical "time shift" of local time in FTP. The minutes and also the hours got lost for different times. For example, 02/07/2018 22:10 and 22/12/2016 23:54 were accessed by ftp client as 02/07/2018 00:00 and 22/12/2016 00:00

I opened the ftp server with following clients: filezilla both on Linux and on Windows, and Free File Sync, both on Linux and on Windows. Afterwards I removed vsftpd and installed proftpd and every modification time was correctly shown on the same clients. Therefore, I assume the fault is on the server, namely vsftpd, not on the clients neither on the system.

Thanks for checking it.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Is this still an issue in 2024?

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

Hi Juan,

thanks for reporting this bug and helping making Ubuntu better. Sorry for taking such a long time to respond to this one, it was probably missed through the former triaging process somehow.

In case you are still affected, would you mind providing a minimal reproducer for the issue you experienced back then?

It would be nice to check if focal is still affected now that xenial has reached its End of Standard Support.

Until we can get a clear reproducer for this bug, I am marking this as incomplete. Once the information requested is provided, please, set this bug status back to new.

Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for vsftpd (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]