NoScript Files Dated 1/1/1980

[therube]

NoScript 2.0.9.9rc2 Files within the .xpi are Dated 1/1/1980.
(And Mozilla Trunk file dates are 1/1/2010. An earlier & grander time?)

Perhaps depends on how they are extracted or viewed?
Perhaps there is no date/time stamped on the files?
Unzip -l shows current date?
Altap (Servant) Salamander unzip plugin shows 1/1/1980?
7zip (7za.exe I think it is) shows nothing in the date/time columns?

[Alan Baxter]

The extracted files in my profile are dated 2/16/2011 10:22 PM. Is that Giorgio's local time when he created the archive?

[dhouwn]

True, the date is apparently zeroed. Though this does not apply to all files or the contents of the jar file.

(And Mozilla Trunk file dates are 1/1/2010. An earlier & grander time?)

They plan on removing the date for non-nightly builds but were afraid of possibly breaking something so they added this intermediate step which also reduces fingerprintability, esp. of custom builds for Linux distributions.

[therube]

How the archive is listed by various utilities, http://therube.pastebin.com/YqaHw5Qj.
(Note some of the the dates of the utilities themselves .)