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TL;DR
A timestamp is used to - Some zip programs does not work well with the Unix Epoch and Docker abuse of the zip files. So NPM fixed it by changing the default of mtime and ctime.
They use a specific timestamp: https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/58d2aa58d5f9c4db49f57a5f33952b3106778669
