Re: When no date, use now, instead of 0 (1970)

[Michael Albinus]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Dan,

> When tramp is copying (from android (termux ssh)) and the file date is
> (perhaps) not available, then maybe instead of using 0 (1970) as the date,
> $ ls -l destination
>   -rw-rw---- 1 jidanni jidanni 2310202 1970-01-01  
> P_20191224_094934_vHDR_On.jpg
>   -rw-rw---- 1 jidanni jidanni 2079894 1970-01-01  
> P_20191227_101154_vHDR_On.jpg
>   -rw-rw---- 1 jidanni jidanni 1685860 1970-01-01  
> P_20191227_102145_vHDR_On.jpg
>   -rw-rw---- 1 jidanni jidanni 1095279 1970-01-01  
> P_20191227_102618_vHDR_On.jpg
>   -rw-rw---- 1 jidanni jidanni  791235 1970-01-01  
> P_20191227_114225_vHDR_On.jpg
> just use now, like plain cp(1) would.

Tramp is stupid. It does exactly what it is said to do :-)

Likely, the files have been copied via (copy-file source target
... keep-time ...), with a non-nil keep-time argument. Tramp tries to
copy keeping the time then.

For any file for which it cannot determine the last modified time, Tramp
uses the constant tramp-time-dont-know, which is (0 0 0 1000). This is
what you see as 1970-01-01 in the ls output. This is not only for the
adb method; all different Tramp implementation of copy-time behave
similar.

If you want to see the current time as time stamp of the copy target,
copy-file must be called with a nil keep-time argument.

Best regards, Michael.