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> The date, as far as I know, is ignored. It is the commit date,
> not the authoring date, and once your patch is applied by a maintainer
> (i.e. committed), the date gets reset anyway.

Thanks for your feedback.


> No need to try and preserve it.

I find that it might occasionally help to share and keep the record
on timestamps about the evolution for an original update suggestion.

Regards,
Markus