On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, at 9:34 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> Whether timestamps are
> preserved by the wheel building process depends on the build system -
> so the question boils down to "does setup.py bdist_wheel preserve
> timestamps?" in the case of the setuptools backend - which is really a
> question for the wheel project. In the more general case, you'd have
> to ask the same question of flit, and any other backends you cared
> about.

IIRC, Flit will preserve the timestamps of the files when you build a wheel, 
unless you use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to override them for a reproducible build. I 
think this is the norm for adding files to a zipfile from a regular filesystem.

Thomas
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