Files with timestamp of 1970

[fenhaoyuan]

Some files in the new version 0.1.5 are having timestamp of 1970.
This makes some deployment tools like AWS Elasticbeanstalk fails.
Error message:
ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980

Image attached.

[fenhaoyuan]

I had to manually set the version to 0.1.4 to make my deployment works.

[isaacs]

@fenhaoyuan What version of npm are you using? I think if you upgrade to latest and greatest, it'll probably do the right thing? See this comment: isaacs/node-tar#174 (comment)

[fenhaoyuan]

Thanks.
We are using node 7.5.0 and npm 4.1.2
It's not an option to upgrade for now because of limitation in some other node modules we are using. And I think it's quite common that people using not lastest version of node and npm.
Plus, if a new version of this package would break in certain version of node/npm, it should not be set to be compatible to that npm version so our npm won't use it when doing npm install.

Below is a reference of what others think on the same issue in another package:
mishoo/UglifyJS#2054

I guess I will have to stick to the old version by manually setting it, for now.

[isaacs]

I've talked with the npm cli team, and added a feature to node-tar to support forcibly setting the mtime on tarball creation. I'll update this package once that lands. That should avoid the problem until older versions of npm are no longer in common usage.