protocol error: mtime.sec not present

rename ~/.bashrc at server machine:
[student@server1-example-com ~]$ mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak

Retry scp from client machine will successful:
[student@station1-example-com ~]$ scp student@server1.example.com:~/0 .
student@server1.example.com's password:
0                                             100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00