tar drops the nanosecond timestamps from the file.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • I extracted the tar archive. And when I checked the timestamp of the file with ls -l --full-time, the millisecond data was missing.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • tar

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