15 decimal digits isn't enough to encode a file's st_mtime seconds and nanoseconds value. I use Perl and found this to be a problem. Like Python, it uses a do

15 decimal digits isn't enough to encode a file's st_mtime seconds and nanoseconds value. I use Perl and found this to be a problem. Like Python, it uses a double for st_mtime, and the nanoseconds value is truncated, so it fails equality tests with nanoseconds recorded by other programs (e.g. in a cache). It even fails equality tests against itself, when timestamp values are serialised to JSON or strings with (say) 6 or 9 digits of precision and back again. Timestamps serialised that way don't round trip reliably due to double truncation.