> I have no idea what lsd is doing. I haven’t read the source code, but from viewing it’s strace, it is calling clock_gettime around 5 times per file. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s doing internal timing of steps along the way?

Maybe calculating "X minutes/hours/days/weeks ago" thing for each timestamp? (access, create, modify, ...). Could just be an old artifact of another library function...