Web Gallery File Datestamp Unexpected?

O Learned Denizens,
I notice an "undocumented feature" that caused me some confusion. I scribe it here to save others the same confusion, maybe.
I use the Web module a lot to publish galleries. It rocks. I use
Matthew Campagna's web templates - they also rock. This behaviour is common to Jardine web gallery too, though - so I don't think it's Matthew's doing.
I have a desire to have a local copy of a site that I can test before uploading, so therefore I always "export" rather than "upload" from Lightroom.
I have a little shell script (MacOSX) that sniffs around the local copy of my site and, when asked, lobs any new stuff up onto the server. The basic plan is that I drop a new gallery into this area and then run the "upload" script.
When the gallery is written out, the datestamp on files that make up the mechanics of the gallery (pngfix.js etc) is the time of the files in the "master" gallery.
This means that my shell script doesn't upload the mechanics of the gallery by default (since the files are not "new") and means I need to recursively "touch" all the files in a gallery directory before uploading.
In unix-speak, I'd say the copy operation is being carried out with a "cp -p" operation by LR instead of a straightforward "cp". If someone could confirm whether or not the same thing happens on Windows that would be excellent.
It's not the end of the world but it did confuse me a bit, since the sites would work locally but not when I pushed them up to the server - obviously because they were incomplete, but that fact escaped me initially since they
i look
complete on first inspection, having all the relevant (but empty) subdirectories.
Since the "cp -p" thing is
i not
the default option, it seems that somebody somewhere has a reason for doing it this way. I'm just buggered if I can think what it is.
Damian

The Unix stuff is beyond me, but if you're using OS X, you might try using
FileBuddy to "touch" your files before uploading.
Also, I'm glad you think my galleries rock. Thank you! ;)
Matt

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