dav date
+date [url]
The purpose of this command is to get the current date from a server and print it on 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/
+