How can I get seconds information from a remote FTP timestamp query?

Using dir(fObj), the seconds field always returns a 0. In \matlab\iofun\@ftp\dir.m,

file=remoteFileList(i);

shows the date as, e.g., Oct 27 12:35. No seconds or year information is given. Any way to create this in the format returned by the command "ls -le" ?

I am using file timestamp info to determine when an updated file has been written to a directory, but if it is updated within the same minute, I am stuck in my while loop.

I am running R2011b.