Re: [PATCH v2] Change attachment stamping to use stat st_mtime by default.

On 2026-08-22 09:31:49 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 03:25:10PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2026-08-21 11:20:26 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
> > > also, i'd generally speak of precision rather than granularity. to me, the
> > > former seems more suggestive of general fuzziness, which seems more fitting
> > > here.
> > 
> > No, this is not the same thing. The mtime has had a nanosecond
> > precision for years. But the granularity changed recently.
> > 
> and my language intuition says that this is just wrong.
> 
> Teh Bot says https://chatgpt.com/share/6a893fa3-b1e4-83eb-a43d-f38fc2b1c2c0
> which seems to agree.

Well, that's ChatGPT.

In the context of clocks, the granularity is how often a clock is
updated (the smallest amount that can be obtained between 2 ticks).

> but when asked more specifically, it gets closer to your position:
> https://chatgpt.com/share/6a8949c3-569c-83eb-a993-dc5e37be6960
> 
> so i think it's wise to avoid the use of "precision" here, and
> instead use "accuracy".

I agree that "accuracy" would be better as the granularity is an
implementation detail, and what matters for the user is the accuracy.

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