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

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-) 

This appears to be affected by the other end in some cases.  It seems to
help in most places but not all.  To work around this, I changed the
info used to sort the files.  Sort of odd at times how it works but
anyway. 

Thanks for the info.  It's not a complete fix but it does help. 

Dale

:-)  :-)