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

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 01:26:57PM +0100, Ian Collier via Mutt-dev wrote:
>The fact is that because time() has coarse granularity
>it is only updated every few milliseconds, and if the real-time clock's
>seconds counter ticks during that gap then the result from time() will
>show the old value, not the current one, until the next update.
>
but that's an implementation detail, not something that inherently 
follows from coarse granularity. a reasonable default interpretation 
would be that the sub-seconds are missing, but the seconds are still 
accurate - which is exactly what everybody was assuming so far for 
time(). that makes the commit message an apparent non-sequitur without 
spelling out the background info.

(a possible fix in the kernel would be queries of the precise clock also 
updating the coarse clock as a side effect.)