Requirements

Before you start, please have these handy:

• Root access and SSH access to your (dv)
• A basic understanding of the Vim editor

Note: The authoritative source for this information can be found at the following link:
http://proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_TimesGMT.html
 

Symptoms

• Time Zone is set correctly in Linux, but FTP reports incorrect timestamps. Closer inspection reveals that the FTP timestamps are set to GMT instead of following the correctly set timezone.

Solution

Open up /etc/proftpd.conf with vi to edit it

vi /etc/proftpd.conf

Navigate to this section

<Global>
DefaultRoot     ~  psacln
AllowOverwrite     on
</Global>

Next, add 'TimesGMT off' to the last line before </Global>, like so:

<Global>
DefaultRoot     ~  psacln
AllowOverwrite     on
TimesGMT           off
</Global>

Finally, restart xinetd:

/etc/init.d/xinetd restart