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

[Dale]

Simon Thelen wrote:
> [2020-07-15 17:30] Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
>> Howdy,
> Hi,
>
>> 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.
> You're probably looking for the --no-mtime option. Depending on what
> you're using to sort your local videos you can always just tell it to
> sort by ctime instead of the (probably) default mtime. Several other
> file download programs set the mtime to the last-modified header or
> similar, but they tend not to touch the ctime.
>

I found that but wasn't sure if that was what I was looking for or not. 
I'll give that a try.  I added it to the conf file.  Now to wait until
this set of videos finishes. 

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)