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/