Comment by nh2

There is some confusion here.

ZIP retains timestamps. This makes sense because timestamps are a global concept. Consider them a attribute dependent on only the file in ZIP, similar to the file's name.

Owners and permissions are dependent also on the computer the files are stored on. User "john" might have a different user ID on another computer, or not exist there at all, or be a different John. So there isn't one obvious way to handle this, while there is with timestamps. Archiving tools will have to pick a particular way of handling it, so you need to pick the tool that implements the specific way you want.