docs/src/date.md

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Mike Becker <universe@uap-core.de>
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Sun, 17 Dec 2023 15:33:50 +0100 (12 months ago)
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fix faulty string to int conversion utilities

Probably it was expected that errno is set to EINVAL when illegal characters are encountered. But this is not standard and does not happen on every system, allowing illegal strings to be parsed as valid integers.

---
title: 'dav date'
---

**`dav date [url]`**

The purpose of this command is to get the current date from a server and print it to stdout (HTTP date format). This in useful in combination with the **`-u`** option for the `list` and `get` command.

The *url* can be any http url. If no *url* is specified, the local time is used.

### Example: incremental dav get

It is possible to download only resources, which are modified since a specified date. The *date* command allows you to easily store the date of the last *get*.

	$ dav get -R myserv/col/
	...
	$ dav date myserv > last_get
	
After some resources are changed on the server, you can download only the modified files.

	$ dav get -R -u `cat last_get` myserv/col/


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