René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"npm5 beta 56: npm pack changes timestamps to 01/01/1970 on Windows 7","articleBody":"#### I'm opening this issue because:\r\n\r\n  - [x] npm is doing something I don't understand.\r\n\r\n#### What's going wrong?\r\n\r\n`npm pack` on Windows seems to be resetting timestamps to `01/01/1970`, which breaks ~several unzipping tools~ one zipping tool.\r\n\r\n#### How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?\r\n\r\nDownload the latest Node 8 rc, [v8.0.0-rc1 for win-x64](https://nodejs.org/download/rc/v8.0.0-rc.1/node-v8.0.0-rc.1-win-x64.zip) and unzip.\r\n\r\n```bat\r\ncd node-v8.0.0-rc.1-win-x64\r\nset path=%cd%;%path%\r\ncd ..\r\nmkdir tst\r\ncd tst\r\nnpm init -y\r\necho console.log('hello world') >index.js\r\nnpm pack\r\n:: Install Git Bash to get tar.exe\r\nset path=C:\\Program Files\\Git\\usr\\bin;%path%\r\ntar -xf tst-1.0.0.tgz\r\ncd package\r\ndir\r\n```\r\n\r\nOutput:\r\n\r\n```bat\r\n05/26/2017  03:49 PM    \u003cDIR>          .\r\n05/26/2017  03:49 PM    \u003cDIR>          ..\r\n01/01/1970  01:00 AM                29 index.js\r\n01/01/1970  01:00 AM               217 package.json\r\n               2 File(s)            246 bytes\r\n               2 Dir(s)  129,871,679,488 bytes free\r\n```\r\n\r\n### supporting information:\r\n\r\n - `npm -v`: `5.0.0-beta.56`\r\n - `node -v` : `v8.0.0-rc.1`\r\n - `npm config get registry`: `https://registry.npmjs.org/`\r\n - Windows: Windows 7\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/gibfahn","@type":"Person","name":"gibfahn"},"datePublished":"2017-05-26T14:51:03Z","url":"https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16734"}