VanguardLH on Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:02:48 -0500 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:

I think Paul might been onto something with the differences in
timestamping granularity in file systems between the source and
destination. NTFS retains timestamps down to a resolution of 100
nanoseconds (0.0000001 s). FAT32 stores only at a resolution of 2
seconds. That is a 2 billion difference in granularity. You can use
wmic to retrieve a file's timestamps down to the nearest microsecond.

Now my question is: how does that impact where a file hasn't been
accessed in (2019-1996=.... carry the one,) over 23 years?
Is it a matter that subtracting the target date from the source
date, the source date is "effectively" a fraction of a second less
than the target date and is considered "newer" by at least 0.0000001
second? As I've said before "Makes sense. Not to me, but I'm sure
it does to someone."
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