Pin zip entry timestamps to 1980-01-01 to match Excel

[ken-swyfft]

Summary

This is to fix a flaky Bug56468 test that would periodically fail when doing a byte-by-byte comparison with two files saved with the exact same data. The issue is that the zip entries have timestamps, and if the test passes a two-second DOS timestamp accuracy, the two files wouldn't be exactly the same. This fixes that flaky test by:

• Pin all zip entry timestamps to 1980-01-01 00:00:00 (the DOS epoch minimum), matching Excel's behavior
• Adds ZipHelper.ZipEntryTimestamp constant used across all 5 ZipEntry creation sites in OPC packaging

Background

Excel sets all zip entry timestamps inside .xlsx files to 1980-01-01 00:00:00. NPOI was using DateTime.Now (SharpZipLib's default), which meant:

1. Two writes of the same workbook could produce different bytes if they straddled a 2-second DOS time boundary
2. Bug56468 (which asserts byte-identical output from consecutive writes) failed intermittently in CI under load
3. NPOI output was non-deterministic — identical content produced different file hashes

This matches how other xlsx libraries handle it (e.g., XlsxWriter adopted the same fix after inspecting Excel-generated files). Apache POI added similar deterministic timestamp support in v5.4.0 via SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.

Changed files

File	Change
openxml4Net/OPC/Internal/ZipHelper.cs	Added ZipEntryTimestamp constant; applied to GetCorePropertiesZipEntry
openxml4Net/OPC/Internal/Marshallers/ZipPartMarshaller.cs	Applied to part entries and relationship entries
openxml4Net/OPC/Internal/ZipContentTypeManager.cs	Applied to [Content_Types].xml entry
openxml4Net/OPC/Internal/Marshallers/ZipPackagePropertiesMarshaller.cs	Applied to properties entry
ooxml/XSSF/Streaming/SXSSFWorkbook.cs	Applied to SXSSF streaming write path

Test plan

• Bug56468 passes (20/20 runs in isolation)
• Full OOXML test suite: 1794 passed, 64 skipped (only pre-existing TestCellIterationOrderWithSparseColumns failure from Replace SortedDictionary with Dictionary in HSSFRow, XSSFRow and SXSSFRow #1753)
• Full main test suite: 2751 passed, 60 skipped

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Summary: PR to fix non-deterministic zip timestamps in XLSX files by pinning all ZipEntry timestamps to 1980-01-01 00:00:00 (Excel's standard). Adds a ZipHelper.ZipEntryTimestamp constant applied across 5 creation sites in OPC packaging. Fixes the flaky Bug56468 test and ensures identical workbook writes produce identical byte output. All tests pass (4545 passed, 124 skipped).

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