Jeroen Demeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a big fan of wget, but I discovered a minor annoyance (not sure > if it even is a bug): > > When downloading multiple files with wget to a single output > (e.g. wget -Oout http://file1 http://file2 http://file3), the > timestamp of the resulting file becomes the timestamp of the *last* > file downloaded. > > I think it would make more sense if the timestamp would be the > timestamp of the most recent file downloaded.
It probably doesn't makes sense to set *any* explicit timestamp on file created with -O from multiple URLs. Current behavior is merely a side-effect of the implementation. But just removing the code that sets the time-stamp would break the behavior for people who use -O with single URL. Changing the current behavior would require complexifying that part of the code; I'm not sure that anything would be gained by such a change. Do you have a use case that breaks on current behavior that would be fixed by introducing the change?
