diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java
index afa6bef05..3a6941a6d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheEntry.java
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ final boolean mightBeRacilyClean(final int smudge_s, final int smudge_ns) {
 		if (smudge_s < mtime)
 			return true;
 		if (smudge_s == mtime)
-			return smudge_ns <= NB.decodeInt32(info, base + 4) / 1000000;
+			return smudge_ns <= NB.decodeInt32(info, base + 4);
 		return false;
 	}