n g wrote:

>     wget url -O dir/name -N
> would download the same file every run.
> 
> while
>     wget url -O name -N
> works as expected.

timestamping compares the timestamp on the local file with the timestamp on
the server. When you use -O the timestamp on the local file is the time the
file was downloaded (not the file from the Last-Modified header).

Tony

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