Re: Emacs 29 and Tramp and Remote Dired confusion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bill Benedetto <bbenedetto@goodyear.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 12:14:37 +0000
> 
> I'm confused about what I'm seeing in Emacs 29.
> 
> Heretofore, when I copied a file in a remote dired, it would keep the same 
> timestamp.
> AFAIK, that's always worked and always been the default.
> 
> However, that is not the default in Emacs 29.
> When I copy a file, it copies it with the current timestamp instead of the 
> original.

Is your value of dired-copy-preserve-time nil per chance?  It's t by
default.