Jamie Tsao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Ant 1.3 on Win2K. When I perform a <copy> task during my
> build to copy over third party jar files (e.g. xerces.jar), why does
> the "modified" timestamp on that jar change to the current system time
> ? It doesn't really affect anything, but I just find it a bit
> annoying. The jar file is only being copied over, not modified, so
> that timestamp should remain unchanged.
>
> - Jamie
When you copy over the file, you've "changed" the contents of the file
while leaving the name the same. Thus, the new modified date.
Glenn McAllister
