Preserve mtimes from archives beetbox#4392

Author: arogl

beets/importer.py

@@ -1090,6 +1090,19 @@ def extract(self):
         archive = handler_class(util.py3_path(self.toppath), mode='r')
         try:
             archive.extractall(extract_to)
+
+            # From here:
+            # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9813243/extract-files-from-zip-file-and-retain-mod-date
+            # fixing #4392
+
+            for f in archive.infolist():
+                # path to this extracted f-item
+                fullpath = os.path.join(extract_to, f.filename)
+                # still need to adjust the dt o/w item will have the current dt
+                date_time = time.mktime(f.date_time + (0, 0, -1))
+                # update date_time
+                os.utime(fullpath, (date_time, date_time))
+
         finally:
             archive.close()
         self.extracted = True

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ New features:
 * :ref:`import-options`: Add support for re-running the importer on paths in
   log files that were created with the ``-l`` (or ``--logfile``) argument.
   :bug:`4379` :bug:`4387`
+* Preserve mtimes from archives
+  :bug:`4392`
 
 Bug fixes: