[Bug-tar] suggestion: setting uniform date for archive members

[Denis Excoffier]

Hello,

I suggest that, for the creation of an archive, it could be possible to
set a uniform date for all the members, instead of the mtime()
associated with each of the source files. That way, a distribution can
be made more 'anonymous'. The options `--owner=USER', `--group=GROUP'
and `--mode=PERMISSIONS' already give this 'setting' capability for
the other attributes of the files.

Thanks in advance.


See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-01/msg00018.html
and the follow-up.

Denis Excoffier.