Merge branch 'beetbox:master' into master

beets/importer.py

@@ -1122,6 +1122,19 @@ class ArchiveImportTask(SentinelImportTask):
         archive = handler_class(util.py3_path(self.toppath), mode='r')
         try:
             archive.extractall(extract_to)
+
+            # Adjust the files' mtimes to match the information from the
+            # archive. Inspired by: https://stackoverflow.com/q/9813243
+            for f in archive.infolist():
+                # The date_time will need to adjusted otherwise
+                # the item will have the current date_time of extraction.
+                # The (0, 0, -1) is added to date_time because the
+                # function time.mktime expects a 9-element tuple.
+                # The -1 indicates that the DST flag is unknown.
+                date_time = time.mktime(f.date_time + (0, 0, -1))
+                fullpath = os.path.join(extract_to, f.filename)
+                os.utime(fullpath, (date_time, date_time))
+
         finally:
             archive.close()
         self.extracted = True

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ 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`
 * Add :ref:`%sunique{} <sunique>` template to disambiguate between singletons.
   :bug:`4438`
 * Add a new ``import.ignored_alias_types`` config option to allow for