Comment by Dylan16807

> I'm the opposite, when I pack and unpack something, I want the files to be identical including attributes. Why should I throw away all the timestamps, just because the file were temporarily in an archive?

I would expect modified dates to stay the same, and other dates to change similar to copying a directory. I think this is the normal experience with zip?

For creation dates, Linux usually doesn't even track those at all. There's partial support on BTRFS and ZFS, and on ext4 there nowhere to store it at all.