I have played around with "file" and "ftp" url directory listings. I noticed that the ftp http-index-format was incorrectly formatted. The code in "nsFTPListingConv.cpp" uses a nsIDateFormat object which depends on the locale settings (sv_SE in my case). http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/streamconv/converters/nsFTPDirListingConv.cpp#877 This date should be formatted as a RFC822 date, which it is in the "file" url. http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/base/src/nsDirectoryIndexStream.cpp#226 So I took the code from the file url and modified nsFTPListingConv. See the patch I have attached to this bug.

I have verified that the patch works on Windows NT also. And as a bonus, the ftp directory view in Mozilla no longer thinks that files are directories in Linux. The directory view in Windows worked before my patch, but it didn't follow the date specification for http-index-format (http://www.area.com/~roeber/file_format.html)

cc:ing Judson Valeski who wrote the original code.

*** Bug 28536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

=> jud

How can it be that this bug is still not fixed? Patches have a tendency to grow old, so it is better to apply the patch earlier than later. I will also retract that this bug doesn't exist in NT, it also appears when I changed locale from US to Swedish.

I talked (mailed) with Judson Valeski about this. He sees the problem but does not like the solution or thinks it should be done in another way. As I understood him he thinks the http-index-format should be changed instead. With the great beta push all people concentrated on PDT+ bugs and this one was not marked as such. I'm sure he will get back to this after the beta push.

That's fine by me. But I see no point in making a format locale-dependent when it never is displayed for the user. It makes parsing simpler and faster to use the RFC822 format. And it removes a dependency to the i18n/l10n modules.

Moving post beta bugs to M18 which is now the post-beta milestone.

robert-- welcome to necko!

Hi dougt, welcome to necko :)

to bradley.

This is fixed by my dirviewer rewrite, although according to bug 38014 it doesn't work on windows. helpwanted in tracking that down.

+makingtest: I'm not very saavy about this issue, so if there are an specific examples someone can provide, or suggested testcases, that would be great. I'll work on reading as many relevant bugs as I can.

Jonas: if this works the way you expect, can you mark your bug "VERIFIED"?

VERIFIED, this bug is subsummed by 38014. If there is a problem w/ dates, file a new bug.

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement. They have the same meaning.