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Wrong ClientModified Timestamp
I need to keep my local file and dropbox file in sync, so I want them to have the same timestamp. So I have a file with timestamp displayed in Internet Explorer of: 22/06/2018 13:05:28 So...
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey there Splinter - nice catch!
Should the date modified time appear not to match the time you'd expect based on your timezone I would advise to perform the following steps.
Firtsly, confirm that ‘Automatically detect timezone’ is checked on your profile's page and make sure that the timezone of your computer is set correctly too.
If this issue persists after my suggestions, do let me know and we'll take it from there. Thanks!
Hi Walt,
Thanks for your reply. It is my first time using the forum and I realised I had posted in the wrong section. I am using the Dropbox API and have subsequently posted into the developers/API section:
Should I do something with the post on this forum - delete or close it somehow?
- Walter
Hey Splinter - thanks for the heads up!
I moved your original post here as well to keep things neat - no further actions are needed from your end, no worries. :wink:
As per your API related question, make sure to subscribe to this thread so you'll get an update when a member of my team writes back here with more information about the issue you seem to be having.
If there's anything else I can do to help, do let me know.
Cheers!
Great thanks for correcting my mistake Walt :)
I'll wait to hear back from your team about the ClientModified issue - I hope they have some ideas as I'm a bit stumped as to why dropbox will accept "2018-6-22T13:5:28Z" on /upload, but return "2018-6-22T12:5:28Z" on /download.
- Greg-DB
Splinter Can you share the code you're using to reproduce this, and the output you're getting? I just tried to reproduce this and /download is returning the same datetime I'm supplying to /upload in a simple test:
curl -vX POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \ --header 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test_281598","client_modified":"2018-6-22T13:5:28Z"}' # > POST /2/files/upload HTTP/1.1 # > Host: content.dropboxapi.com # > User-Agent: curl/7.58.0 # > Accept: */* # > Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN> # > Content-Type: application/octet-stream # > Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test_281598","client_modified":"2018-6-22T13:5:28Z"} # > # < HTTP/1.1 200 OK # < Server: nginx # < Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:21:40 GMT # < Content-Type: application/json # < Transfer-Encoding: chunked # < Connection: keep-alive # < Vary: Accept-Encoding # < pragma: no-cache # < cache-control: no-cache # < X-Server-Response-Time: 989 # < X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 7d064252bd53bd317bb02605d8ed4fd9 # < X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex # < # * Connection #0 to host content.dropboxapi.com left intact # {"name": "test_281598", "path_lower": "/test_281598", "path_display": "/test_281598", "id": "id:25N5ksooX-sAAAAAAAMpmw", "client_modified": "2018-06-22T13:05:28Z", "server_modified": "2018-06-22T17:21:40Z", "rev": "733c4021eccc7", "size": 0, "content_hash": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855"} curl -vX POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ --header 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test_281598"}' # > POST /2/files/download HTTP/1.1 # > Host: content.dropboxapi.com # > User-Agent: curl/7.58.0 # > Accept: */* # > Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN> # > Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test_281598"} # > # < HTTP/1.1 200 OK # < Server: nginx # < Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:22:13 GMT # < Content-Type: application/octet-stream # < Content-Length: 0 # < Connection: keep-alive # < accept-ranges: bytes # < etag: W/"733c4021eccc7" # < pragma: no-cache # < cache-control: no-cache # < original-content-length: 0 # < dropbox-api-result: {"name": "test_281598", "path_lower": "/test_281598", "path_display": "/test_281598", "id": "id:25N5ksooX-sAAAAAAAMpmw", "client_modified": "2018-06-22T13:05:28Z", "server_modified": "2018-06-22T17:21:40Z", "rev": "733c4021eccc7", "size": 0, "content_hash": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855"} # < X-Server-Response-Time: 1497 # < X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 0ff75dbf9fb1eab7c7ecefbf2c5ce379 # < X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex # < # * Connection #0 to host content.dropboxapi.com left intactSo, it looks like this is working as expected at the API level, but perhaps you're using an SDK or library and there is a time zone issue at that level. If so, please make sure to include the SDK/library name and version too. Thanks!
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