[SunHELP] Time and Date Stamp

Hi,
I have a script that gzip's up some log files and then removes any older
than 40 days.  My problem is when I go in to check some of the logs the date
stamp gets changed when I uncompress the files to look at them...is there
any way to make sure that the date on this directory does not
change...otherwise I have been using touch to reset the time/date but that
is getting old really quick...thanks,

Shain