Sorting by time is inconsistent

[tuxiqae]

Hi, I've found that the time sorting feature isn't consistent.
It seems to sort differently on each execution of the command - for files which were last modified at the same time.

I've noticed it while using the command 'watch'.

The command I ran:
watch -n0.1 'exa -mbghHla --SORT=time |tail'

I tried to.execute the same command but this time I used 'ls' and it worked flawlessly.

(The ls command - watch -n0.1 'ls -ltr | tail')

[ogham]

Hi! Thanks for reporting the bug.

It looks like exa is using the mtime metadata field, which gets rounded down to the nearest second, rather than the mtime_nsec, which has more precision. So when exa sorts the output, it tries to sort your files by a bunch of identical timestamps, and does not sort them any further than that. (Not sure why it’s doing this — I probably just used the wrong function by mistake)