Comment 1 for bug 703914

I'd be happy to see them go, however obviously someone at some point wanted to add them..

One could imagine date and user being useful in some circumstances, and if you compare to office-software suites, you will probably find that they also store metadata like this along with their files.

If I get an agreement from DJ and / or Dan that this should go, I'll happily commit a patch which removes these.

Don't spend too much time working on a patch until we know if it is likely to get accepted though!