The different timestamps are just when they were created locally, so I don't think they are out of sync as far as content. If you want to make the timestamps match, you could first do mvn dependency:purge-local-repository That should clear out your project dependencies from the local repo, and then you can download them again with the correct timestamps. I'm not sure why maven doesn't download sources by default when they are available. Maybe because it would slow down the initial build a little bit if you just want to build and don't care about the sources. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097480#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...