> The big issue for me is I'd like the time+date that the file
> originally had when created.

You can achieve what you want by storing your files on a FAT (or FAT32 etc) formatted disk.

I think this is a perfectly sensible wish for someone working on their own and not collaborating across time zones. When collaborating across time zones it is important to know which version of a file is actually more recent, for instance with a collaboration across US Eastern Standard Time and UK and local times, a US version of a file that is more recent may appear to be 4 hours older. That is the reason local time was abandoned when NTFS was introduced.

I believe ZTree leaves the time conversion to the operating system. That makes sense, because depending on the available drivers it may be displaying files from many different file systems (FAT, NTFS HFS, EXT3, EXT4,... etc).