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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Jamie Tsao <jt...@atinera.com> on 2001/06/12 19:21:24 UTC

"Modified" timestamp when using task

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

Re: "Modified" timestamp when using task

Posted by Glenn McAllister <gl...@somanetworks.com>.

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