What time/date do you stamp your deployed data/exe files when they appear on the target system?

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Published on 2010-06-07T19:25:55Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 19:42 UTC
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It seems a good and clean thing to ensure that your deployed files appear on the target system with a consistent time/date. Many Applications seem to do this but other than for care of overwriting Users' existing data I guess it has no real significance. I'm having a purge on my installer packaging and I'd like to know if there any good reasons for specific date/time handling.

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