topic Modified date issue in ODS package zip in SAS Programming

Modified date issue in ODS package zip

anurak — Mon, 11 May 2020 21:07:37 GMT

I am using macro to zip all files in a folder. When i open the zip file, date of modified becomes the date I ran the macro. When I create zip files manually, date of modified preserves original files date. Here is the code I am using. How can i preserve the original modified date in zip file?

ods package(newzip) open nopf;

%do j = 1 %to &cnt;

ods package(newzip) add file="&dir.&&name&j" mimetype="application/x-compress";
ods package(newzip) publish archive properties(archive_name="&zipnme..zip" archive_path="&ziploc");

%end;

ods package(newzip) close;

Re: Modified date issue in ODS package zip

agannon — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:16:38 GMT

Retaining timestamps for ZIP files has been discussed before on SAS Communities:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-ODS-PACKAGE-to-create-ZIP-files-without-Changing-Timestamp/td-p/577547

Re: Modified date issue in ODS package zip

Reeza — Tue, 12 May 2020 21:50:53 GMT

It looks like there's currently no method to do that with ODS Package but if your OS has a zip tool installed you can use that from within SAS to get the same output, usually you do need XCMD enabled though.