Keep server timestamps #33

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opened 2026-02-20 22:23:46 -05:00 by deekerman · 4 comments
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Originally created by @ttin on GitHub (Dec 22, 2010).

First of all, thank you for this incredible project. I love every option and everything is very thought out. Great work.

I think it would be nice if there could be an option to keep server timestamps. Safari, for example, does just that when downloading via its Activity Monitor. It would help me tremendously, as I organize content by date.

Originally created by @ttin on GitHub (Dec 22, 2010). First of all, thank you for this incredible project. I love every option and everything is very thought out. Great work. I think it would be nice if there could be an option to keep server timestamps. Safari, for example, does just that when downloading via its Activity Monitor. It would help me tremendously, as I organize content by date.
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@2011 commented on GitHub (Jan 6, 2011):

Ditto! I have wanted this for a long time, and it seems relatively easy to implement (just parse the Last-Modified header and set the file time to that time when finished).

I have always used wget (which maintains timestamps) to download videos (after getting the URL with youtube-dl), but now, I can't get wget to work even using cookies.

@2011 commented on GitHub (Jan 6, 2011): Ditto! I have wanted this for a long time, and it seems relatively easy to implement (just parse the Last-Modified header and set the file time to that time when finished). I have always used wget (which maintains timestamps) to download videos (after getting the URL with youtube-dl), but now, I can't get wget to work even using cookies.
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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2011):

I don't have time to do this for now. Patches and/or pull requests are welcome.

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Jan 18, 2011): I don't have time to do this for now. Patches and/or pull requests are welcome.
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@imrehg commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2011):

Could you test the version in the pull-request of issue #64? Let me know if it works as you expected.

@imrehg commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2011): Could you test the version in the pull-request of issue #64? Let me know if it works as you expected.
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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2011):

This has been merged.

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2011): This has been merged.
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