Contrary to documentation, ZipFile.extract does not extract timestamps or other metadata

[mhsmith]

BPO	32170
Nosy	@Yhg1s, @serhiy-storchaka, @mhsmith

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[mhsmith]

The documentation explicitly says "file information is extracted as accurately as possible". But the zipfile module doesn't actually extract any metadata at all. I assume this text was copied and pasted from the tarfile module, which does implement this.

Fixing the code is preferred to fixing the documentation.

[mhsmith]

Related: bpo-15795