upload_date not working properly after the new update

[y0ttahertz]

The parameter %(upload_date)s is not working properly ( It was before the recent update)

If I run:

youtube-dl -ciw -v -o '%(id)s_N3ws1t_%(upload_date)s_N3ws1t_%(title)s.%(ext)s' --date '20150424' --write-thumbnail --playlist-end 30 ytuser:newsittv

I get only the videos uploaded after 12:00 (GMT +2 Athens)

For videos uploaded earlier but on the same day, I have to run:

youtube-dl -ciw -v -o '%(id)s_N3ws1t_%(upload_date)s_N3ws1t_%(title)s.%(ext)s' --date '20150423' --write-thumbnail --playlist-end 30 ytuser:newsittv

I attach a photo of what 'ls -ltr' is showing on the local folder. The attributes of ls are the same with the ones on youtube but " %(upload_date)s " is not

[dstftw]

Post the full output you get when running with --verbose option.

[y0ttahertz]

video 8 is correctly not in range

from 9-12 shouldn't be in range.. same as the above because it was uploaded today (24/04/2015)

video 13 is correctly in range and already existing in the folder

( youtube-dl -ciw -v -o '%(id)s_N3ws1t_%(upload_date)s_N3ws1t_%(title)s.%(ext)s' --date '20150423' --write-thumbnail --playlist-end 30 ytuser:newsittv )

[dstftw]

I'm experiencing exactly the same behavior with last 3 versions of youtube-dl (current git, 2015.04.17 and 2015.04.09), so nothing has been broken by recent releases. Such behavior happens due to the file timestamp being set from Last-modified HTTP header returned by webserver and not from the upload_date field (modifying file timestamp can be disabled with --no-mtime).
Since you are not willing to provide full output containing at least the actual version of youtube-dl you are using I can't check your particular version.

[y0ttahertz]

With the previous version I haven't had any problems.. be aware that by previous version I don't mean only of youtube-dl but youtube itself as well.. maybe something has changed there and that's why you are getting the same results with the previous versions (I'm using it to create a feed which I monitor every day, so I know for a fact it was working properly as of 16/04/2015. From 17 it stopped downloading videos then I updated to the newer version and I encountered the upload_date problem)

Of course I can give you the full output.. but I don't know how to catch all of it ( too long for the ubuntu shell)

here is the start of it

[y0ttahertz]

Just to put it differently the timestamp returned by youtube is the actual date and time the upload happened and the ' upload_date ' and/or the ' --date ' attribute of youtube-dl is not working properly for every video