How can i change the FTP Server time stamping?

Problem is

1. Our server timing is
Fri Feb 13 14:17:22 SGT 2009

2. Out FTP Server timing is GMT

Can anyone tell me how can i make the FTP Server timing is our local timing?

Please explain what you mean the FTP server timing is GMT?

filetimes - (mtime, ctime, and atime) if that is what you are talking about - are always set to UTC (GMT). When you login to a box, the login changes the TZ variable (or whatever your system does to set the timezone) of the login process.

So, when ever you call "ls" or anything else that shows filetimes, it gets translated to the local timezone. As defined above.

If you can change the TZ variable to GMT (or whatever the ftp server does to set timeszones) for ftp users at login/connect then you can do what you want. I personally do not know how to do that. I assume it is a property of the time setting in the ftpd process. So when you start ftpd as root, on the ftp server, it needs to think it is in the GMT timezone.

If you are using vsftpd, there is a time setting in there to use either the local server time or not. I believe the default is GMT for some reason.

Use this setting in your config

use_localtime=yes

If i want to set this one i need to restart the server. Without restarting the server anyway to set "use_localtime=yes".

Please advise me.

you don't have to restart the entire server, you just need to restart the vsftpd daemon. It will take about 5 seconds to re-source the file.