preserve modification dates - import to checkout?

I, newbie, have created a repository, imported a directory (including the
files it contained), and created (checkout-ed) a local copy. Cool.

But the files in the local copy have modification times corresponding to the
time of checkout and that seems odd to me.

Can someone please explain either:

A) how to tell svn to preserve the files' modification dates from import to
checkout, or
B) why I don't want to do A

I've looked for something simple like the -p option of the UNIX cp command
and can't find anything.
I get the feeling anything can be done with properties - but isn't there an
easy way to do this?

Thanks,
Ron
Received on Thu Feb 15 16:37:52 2007