Comment 2 for bug 1076716

When an archive is decompressed, original folder/file date-time stamps should be preserved.
Current behavior sets them to the date-time of extraction.

Perhaps this bug being ignored because it only effects serious users; coupled with a strong perception that Ubuntu is only being used to facilitate entertainment (facebook, streaming video, etc.) of non-serious users.

I would like to move from an older version of Ubuntu, where archiving works correctly, and take advantage of some of the improvements within Ubuntu 12.10 but I cannot move to a newer version whether 12.10 or 13.04, if archiving remains horribly broken.