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Code Deploy - Unhandled exception - ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980

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Mar 14, 20260 views
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Problem

Overview When running a deployment via circle-ci we've recently been getting the following error when running the `create_application_revision` command: [code block] I couldn't find an existing issue with the repo. We haven't changed any configuration recently. This appears to have only started happening since yesterday, it was the first time we had the error on our builds. We're running the following versions: [code block] If anyone is able to point us in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

Error Output

error when running the `create_application_revision` command:

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Solution: Code Deploy - Unhandled exception - ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980

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So for me `uglify-js` got files with creation date at 1969. As a workaround I added this: [code block]

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    So for me `uglify-js` got files with creation date at 1969.

    As a workaround I added this: [code block]

Validation

Resolved in aws/aws-cli GitHub issue #2639. Community reactions: 25 upvotes.

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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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Alex Chen

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