The FTP time difference between windows server 2016 is 8 hours

Question

I set up an FTP server with Windows server 2016, using the default FTP service of the system. After the setup, I find that the windows client accesses the files in the FTP path within 8 hours. On the server, create a file in the directory, or create a new file after the client accesses the path through the Explorer, you can find that the file creation time is 8 hours faster than that on the windows client. I began to suspect that the server and the client set the time differently, but after checking, the server and the client set the time to UTC+8, which does not seem to be caused by incorrect time Settings. I'm asking for help.

Answer 1

Hi Xie,

Thanks for your post.

Based on my research, FTP protocol doesn't provide local time explicitly because it doesn’t have a way to retrieve server clock. This is by design. You can have a try with **SITE ZONE **command requests the UTF offset for the time zone in which the server is located, allowing some FTP clients to adjust file timestamps to reflect different source/destination time zones.

FTP Commands: CWD, CDUP, PWD, RMD, DELE, SMNT, SITE | Serv-U

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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Answer 2

Hello, I'm not referring to IIS logs It is a file created in the FTP directory. The time difference between the creation of the file is 8 hours. Thank you