Keep original timestamps of files downloaded with nautilus

Question

Is there a way to keep the original file date when downloading from server with nautilus ftp? Like it is now, the file has as date / time the downloaded date / time and not the one in the server?

Answer 1

As a workaround, wget does that by default. From the manpage(manual page):

   --timestamping
       Turn on time-stamping.

   --no-use-server-timestamps
       Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server.

       By default, when a file is downloaded, it's timestamps are set to
       match those from the remote file. This allows the use of
       --timestamping on subsequent invocations of wget. However, it is
       sometimes useful to base the local file's timestamp on when it was
       actually downloaded; for that purpose, the
       --no-use-server-timestamps option has been provided.

For nautilus, you may want to submit a bug report (feature request): https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=nautilus

Answer 2

if you are likely to do from terminal , cp command can help you with -p option .

-p
same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps

--preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context, links, all