"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 00:18:11, Apd wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

[built-in zip]

I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with its being there, as long
as you know its limitations - and, for me, it _is_ useful.

It can be useful in some cases but the deal breaker for me is that
(on XP) file dates are not preserved on extraction. They get the
current date & time.

I hadn't spotted that. I rarely extracted - AFAICR, only for
installations that _required_ several files, and in those cases I'd
usually delete the extracted files after the installation was complete,
so it didn't matter. Yes, that would bug me too. (I'll have a look to
see if the same applies in 7 next time I do an extraction, if I
remember.)

I just checked a fully patched Win7. All dates (created, modified,
accessed) are set to the modified date stored in the zip on extracted
files, which is reasonable behaviour. See my other post for XP
anomalies.