On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:17:10 -0400
Volodya Savastiouk <volo...@io3.ca> wrote:

> I've raised this issue before with little success, although a few people 
> responde> The issue is the file dates being always today's date whenever one 
> downloads a copy from 
> the repository or simply opens a local copy. I'd really like to either see 
> the file dates 
> being the date of the last update or at least have an option of saving the 
> update date in 
> the filename so I can use that info and force the file date myself.
> I figure that all of the necessary information is already in the database and 
> the only 
> step that's missing is a call to the file system for the file's date/time 
> update after it 
> is re-created from the database.
> Does anybody else feel this is a useful feature/option?

As noted, this breaks build systems that compare file dates to see if
a file needs to be recompiled. As such, this feature is dangerous.

  <mike
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