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If I download this clip with youtube-dl, the last modified date is 15 November 2018 03:55, while YouTube shows a posted date of 23 April 2013. This page mentions that one cannot replace a video:

You can’t replace a video since any new video uploads will get a new URL

I would like to change that date to the date of the download, i.e. today, instead of that other date. The downloader launches asynchronously, so I can't easily pipe the filepath to touch. I have not found any option in the documentation. If I can't find any good solution, I will look at the Python source code and submit a pull request.

What is that date, and can I easily set the modified date to today?

miguelmorin
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By default youtube-dl sets the modified date of the filesystem to the Last-Modified header sent by Youtube. If you don't want that you can use the ''--no-mtime'' parameter which leaves the modified date unchanged so it is "now".

For more details see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/387133

e-dschungel
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you can easily convert the date to the current date, at least in win10, by using the context of the downloaded file, then properties/details, and then scroll down to "media created". Here you can manually change (only) the date...

In python it is also possible, in case you have to do it several times...

delaflota
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