Default stat_float_times to true.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 995e432..6304346 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -1012,17 +1012,13 @@
it is False, future calls return ints. If newval is omitted, return
the current setting.
-For compatibility with older Python versions, accessing
-\class{stat_result} as a tuple always returns integers. For
-compatibility with Python 2.2, accessing the time stamps by field name
-also returns integers. Applications that want to determine the
-fractions of a second in a time stamp can use this function to have
-time stamps represented as floats. Whether they will actually observe
-non-zero fractions depends on the system.
+\versionchanged[Python now returns float values by default. Applications
+which do not work correctly with floating point time stamps can use
+this function to restore the old behaviour]{2.5}
-Future Python releases will change the default of this setting;
-applications that cannot deal with floating point time stamps can then
-use this function to turn the feature off.
+The resolution of the timestamps (i.e. the smallest possible fraction)
+depends on the system. Some systems only support second resolution;
+on these systems, the fraction will always be zero.
It is recommended that this setting is only changed at program startup
time in the \var{__main__} module; libraries should never change this
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0492392..63081b0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
+- stat_float_times is now True.
+
- array.array objects are now picklable.
- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index b577ba9..7ecd864 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
/* If true, st_?time is float. */
-static int _stat_float_times = 0;
+static int _stat_float_times = 1;
PyDoc_STRVAR(stat_float_times__doc__,
"stat_float_times([newval]) -> oldval\n\n\