[gentoo-user] Youtube-dl and file time stamps.

[Dale]

Howdy,

I'm not sure what causes this because it doesn't always do this.  When I
use youtube-dl to download videos, it sometimes uses the current date
and time for the time stamp.  I like that because I can sort by date and
see new videos.  On some sites tho it seems to use the time stamp of the
file on the server I am downloading from not when it was put on my
system.  Sometimes I download a video and it may have a time stamp of
years ago, decades sometimes.  I looked through the help page but can't
find a option to tell it to use local time instead of the time from the
remote server file.  Needless to say, when it does this, I can't tell
which videos I recently downloaded since sorting by time stamps is no
longer accurate. It's annoying.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Is there a way to tell it to stop
setting it to really old time stamps?  Some option that isn't documented
maybe.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S. Doing pretty well with my encrypted drives and stuff.  Remembering
the passwords can be difficult at times tho.