lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
index b53255975a3f309be44059fcc6fc7ec4436d86c8..1a89fbad076b94e99d9dcc6517474e0a3a9e079d 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ 	# sort child messages in chronological order
 	$th->order(*PublicInbox::Thread::sort_ts);
 
 	# except we sort top-level messages reverse chronologically
-	my $state = [ time, {}, $first, 0 ];
+	my $state = [ undef, {}, $first, 0 ];
 	for (PublicInbox::Thread::rsort_ts($th->rootset)) {
 		dump_msg($_, 0, \$html, $state)
 	}