Preserve File Timestamps

[guedressel]

I would like to see the feature to keep creation and modification dates of copied files.

[Hagith]

+1 on this. This allows to push only modified files to production.

[multicam]

Any ETA on this one? I'd love this feature too.
Cheers

[AndrewDryga]

+1

[wkeizer]

+1 indeed

[decadecity]

+1

[mheesters]

I also want this functionality, but..

grunt-contrib-copy uses the grunt.file library for file copying (and thus creation).
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js

In turn, the grunt.file library uses the NodeJS filesystem library
https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/fs.js

There doesn't seem to be any options or support for maintaining/altering the creation date on that level.
Only the access/modify dates through fs.futimes.

I created an issue in the NodeJS repo: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8252

[mheesters]

Looks like a dead-end: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8252

[shama]

Fixed by 1e3607d

[jorangreef]

For anyone interested in preserving creation timestamps on Windows and Mac, you can now use https://github.com/ronomon/utimes to set the btime.