diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index be859a5a1..e28788e3c 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import cookielib
 import ctypes
 import datetime
+import email.utils
 import gzip
 import htmlentitydefs
 import httplib
@@ -117,6 +118,14 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
 		stream = open(filename, open_mode)
 		return (stream, filename)
 
+def timeconvert(timestr):
+    """Convert RFC 2822 defined time string into system timestamp"""
+    timestamp = None
+    timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(timestr)
+    if timetuple is not None:
+        timestamp = email.utils.mktime_tz(timetuple)
+    return timestamp
+
 class DownloadError(Exception):
 	"""Download Error exception.
 
@@ -748,6 +757,15 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		if data_len is not None and byte_counter != data_len:
 			raise ContentTooShortError(byte_counter, long(data_len))
 		self.try_rename(tmpfilename, filename)
+		# Update file modification time
+		timestr = data.info().get('last-modified', None)
+		if timestr is not None:
+			filetime = timeconvert(timestr)
+			if filetime is not None:
+				try:
+					os.utime(filename,(time.time(), filetime))
+				except:
+					pass
 		return True
 
 class InfoExtractor(object):