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ftp timestamp off by 5 hours when using windows explorer

When using windows explorer the dates of last modified is off by 5 hours.
If you use ie9, Chrome, or firefox the time shows correctly.

Client (PC), Server (FTP) all show the correct time and time zone.

This seems like a windows 7 bug, it does not happen in XP.
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What is the time zone that each are set to? Are these both the same time zone that you are actually in?

I'm assuming Eastern since that is the 5 Hour difference between GMT (new-UTC). For some reason MS thought it was a good idea to set it to default to this time zone on the Windows Explorer FTP in newer versions of Windows.

A potential work-around for this would be to set the time on the FTP server to GMT time zone and then when a Windows 7 machine uses the Windows Explorer FTP, it will show the correct time. Unfortunately, I think this is the only option unless you use a 3rd party FTP program or a browser...
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All servers, PC's everything is in CST.

If we change the time zone to GMT that would cause everyone that currently works to show the same problem correct?
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This seems to be a Know bug its been around for at lease a year.
Seems to be windows 7 only.


Windows 7 Explorer FTP Time Stamp Issue
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/7d3545c1-5005-4755-
8714-73c359be8859
I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for jgoering's comment #37833087

for the following reason:

Found the answer my self
This has been around for more than a year and was an issue in Vista as well.
I proposed a workaround since there is no known fix for the issue and the author's "results/answer" was a page confirming what I had already said. Should I not get partial credit for this thread?
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All servers, PC's everything is in CST.

not in CDT?  That CST is GMT-6, CDT is GMT-5