diff --git a/packaging/windows/push-build-inputs.sh b/packaging/windows/push-build-inputs.sh
index cb13cd77..273f80e2 100755
--- a/packaging/windows/push-build-inputs.sh
+++ b/packaging/windows/push-build-inputs.sh
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ m = {
 json.dump(m, open(out, "w"), indent=2, sort_keys=True)
 PY
 
+# Every staged file gets the current time: the PC keeps its cargo target dir between jobs and cargo decides what to
+# rebuild by source mtime, so a source older than the last build (rsync and zip keep the Mac's dates) is wrongly
+# taken as unchanged. 5 October 2026: the 0.3.6 job compiled the new daemon against the cached 0.3.5 consensus crate.
+find "$TMP" -type f -exec touch {} +
 rm -f "$OUT"
 (cd "$TMP" && zip -qr "$OUT" "igneum-build-inputs" "igneum-pow" -x '*.DS_Store')
 SUM="$(shasum -a 256 "$OUT" | awk '{print $1}')"