diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/http/file/HttpStaticFileServerHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/http/file/HttpStaticFileServerHandler.java
index 922f0be479..f3cf358bcd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/http/file/HttpStaticFileServerHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/http/file/HttpStaticFileServerHandler.java
@@ -142,8 +142,11 @@ public class HttpStaticFileServerHandler extends SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler {
         {
             SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(HTTP_DATE_FORMAT, Locale.US);
             Date ifModifiedSinceDate = dateFormatter.parse(ifModifiedSince);
-            if (ifModifiedSinceDate.getTime() == file.lastModified())
-            {
+
+            // Only compare up to the second because the datetime format we send to the client does not have milliseconds 
+            long ifModifiedSinceDateSeconds = ifModifiedSinceDate.getTime() / 1000;
+            long fileLastModifiedSeconds = file.lastModified() / 1000;
+            if (ifModifiedSinceDateSeconds == fileLastModifiedSeconds) {
                 sendNotModified(ctx);
                 return;
             }