Merge documents from two MacBook Pros preserving Time/Date stamp?

Hi all,
I have two MacBook Pros with the same user account and would like to merge all of the documents to one of them while preserving the time/date stamp of the documents. One is 10.6 the other 10.8 but I'm only concerned about the documents. I would consider a third party utility if one were recommended.
Thanks everyone,
Phil

Migration Assistant creates a new user account to which your user files are restored. The easiest way for you to recovery from this situation would be to boot into Recovery (command-R at startup), erase the boot volume and install OS X again, and then follow the prompts in Setup Assistant (not Migration Assistant) to transfer your data from a Time Machine backup. If you don't want to do that, there are other ways, but it's more complicated.
Another thing you should realize is that your internal drive is suspect. It has seriously malfunctioned once. That may be all the warning you'll get of an impending failure.

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