Simon Thelen wrote: > [2020-07-15 17:30] Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.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 :-) :-)
