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Those aren't needed to generate a hash of a file. And that metadata isn't part of the file itself (or at least doesn't need to be), it's part of the filesystem

• imcritic 2y ago
  That's an acceptable answer for the simple case when you distribute just a file, but what if your distribution is something more complex, like an archive with some sub-archives? Metadata in the internal files will affect the checksum of the resulting archive.
  • exe34 2y ago
    unless you fix them to a known epoch.
  • londons_explore 2y ago
    Finding and fixing cases like this are part of what the project has done...