A Laravel Trait to Allow temporarily disable timestamps update's.

CanIgnoreTimestamps.php

<?php

namespace App\Traits;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

trait CanIgnoreTimestamps
{
    protected static $ignoreTimestamps = false;

    public static function ignoreTimestamps(bool $ignore = true)
    {
        static::$ignoreTimestamps = $ignore;
    }

    public function usesTimestamps()
    {
        return parent::usesTimestamps() && !static::$ignoreTimestamps;
    }
}

And then...

Set flag:
MyModel::ignoreTimestamps();

Do your stuff:
MyModel::(...)

Reset the flag:
MyModel::ignoreTimestamps(false);

The $timestamps property in the model is not static so you can't use that,
but Laravel always checks the usesTimestamps() method before setting the timestamps.