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tests: ensure a status will have non ambiguous mtime in some race test

For the test to work, we need some mtime to be recorded. For them to be recorded, they need to be "clearly in the past", otherwise edit with the same mtime would be possible.

Strictly speaking there might be file system with a minimal mtime increment
longer than one second. However it is unlikely that we will run the test on
them for now. We can be smarter about this in the future if it becomes
necessary.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11779

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.