Does zip\'s -u flag pay attention to deleted files?

Does zip\'s -u flag pay attention to deleted files? References This website about Linux\'s zip utility says this about the -u flag: Replace (update) an existing entry in the zip archive only if it has been modified more recently than the version already in the zip archive. For example: zip -u stuff * will add any new files in the current directory, and update any files which have been modified since the zip archive stuff.zip was last created/modified. My question is, if a particular file has been removed since the last time it was zipped, whether -u will recognize that the file has been removed and thus remove it from the *.zip file? Or, lacking timestamp information (since the file is now removed), it will leave the backed up file in *.zip, since there is no \"newer\" file?