When you compress a file or folder in the Finder via the Create Archive command, a ZIP file is created using the current date as modification date. But when you’re archiving older data, it’s much more useful for the ZIP file date to reflect the date of its contents, since a few years from now [...]
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Snow Leopard Services: Set ZIP File Date
One of the more popular posts on this site is an entry from October of 2007 on creating a ZIP archive and setting the modification date via an Automator workflow. As I wrote then: “…when you’re archiving older data, it’s much more useful for the ZIP file date to reflect the date of its contents, [...]