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

On 2026-08-20 18:35:08 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
> 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.

No, the seconds are not accurate.

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