21/01/1970 - date on latest Pycharm download - some problem here ?

I've just downloaded Pycharm and Webstorm (between GMT 00:30 and 1:30 on the 11th) and the internal dates all appear to be 21/01/1970 - surely some mistake ?

this is pycharm-professional-2024.3.2 and WebStorm-2024.3.2.1 as the tar.gz files. 

The Webstorm unpacked seemingly correctly but I haven't gone any further.

Any comments ?

graham

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HI Graham

Thank you for reaching out 

The timestamps indeed show incorrectly when opening the tar file.

You can ignore the wrong timestamps in this case and proceed with the installation

 

This is a known case and we have an open youtrack case which you can follow/upvote:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-319036/IDE-files-dated-as-January-1970-in-downloaded-installer-archive

Also another similar post regarding this issue:

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/11030124968338-Intellij-product-download-tar-file-timestamps

 

Please let me know if any further questions regarding this.

Kind regards,

 

Thanks for the reply.

It does seem to have been around for a while…I have a Datagrip installation from 2023 that has the same ‘feature’

But why the 20th ? I'd understand it more if it had been time 0 or 1…

 

graham

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Hi Graham

 

It seems this timestamp is the developer's fixed timestamp choice for the builds as explained in a comment below:

We use a fixed date (1970-01-20) in it in order to make our build/installer reproducible, so if we build these from our source code several times later, it will output the same build file with the same date, which is better for security, build infrastructure.
But I agree this might be odd because these timestamps are not correct and reflect the real build time.

In any case this is being reviewed and will have to be changed as per the related youtrack case because this can cause confusion.

Kind regards,

 

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