Re: [Cooker] Proper rsync syntax for Cooker downloads

[Ron Stodden]

"R.I.P. Deaddog" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ron Stodden wrote:
> 
> > No, it will download it all again, because wget is a defective
> > downloader in that it does not preserve file dates - rsync therefore
> > determines the server file to be a new version.
> 
> To preserve file dates in wget, I think -m option may do it, but not so
> sure.

rsync uses a file last modified dating scheme that takes into account
time zones.
I speculate that the file timestamps must match when normalised to
the same time zone.  I do not know how rsync determines the server
time zone (but it does).   AFAIK, wget has no timezone awareness.

-- 
Ron. [au]