Re: [PATCH] Change attachment stamping to use stat st_mtime by default.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 12:44:29PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>On 2026-08-20 12:29:57 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 10:54:23AM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>> > This can result in time() being earlier than the mtime of a file
>> > just modified.
>> > 
>> it can't, as long as only the full seconds are compared.
>
>It can (even if you take the nanoseconds of st_mtim into account
>as they are non-negative[*]), as shown by the tests.
>
that's besides the point. the reasoning as given by the commit message 
is bogus.