diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/selectors.html b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/selectors.html
index 09374f815..5870d6993 100755
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/selectors.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/selectors.html
@@ -271,8 +271,8 @@
     <ol>
     <li> If there is no 'other' file, it's different.
     <li> Files with different lengths are different.
-    <li> Files with the same timestamp are the same, unless <tt>ignoreFileTimes</tt>
-         is set. This feature is useful to keep the selection fast.
+    <li> If <tt>ignoreFileTimes</tt> is turned off, then differing file
+    timestamps will cause files to be regarded as different.
     <li> Finally a byte-for-byte check is run against the two files
     </ol>
 
@@ -308,6 +308,13 @@
         </td>
         <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
       </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td valign="top">ignoreFileTimes</td>
+        <td valign="top">Whether to use file times in the comparison or not.
+          Default is true (time differences are ignored).
+        </td>
+        <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
+      </tr>
       <tr>
         <td valign="top">granularity</td>
         <td valign="top">The number of milliseconds leeway to give before
@@ -317,13 +324,6 @@
         </td>
         <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
       </tr>
-      <tr>
-        <td valign="top">ignoreFileTimes</td>
-        <td valign="top">Whether to use file times in the comparison or not.
-        Default is false (time differences are significant).
-        </td>
-        <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
-      </tr>
     </table>
 
     <p>Here is an example of how to use the Different Selector:</p>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java
index d7410613f..73208962e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public class DifferentSelector extends MappingSelector {
 
     private FileUtils fileUtils= FileUtils.newFileUtils();
 
-    private boolean ignoreFileTimes=false;
+    private boolean ignoreFileTimes=true;
 
 
     /**