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tuliodepadua
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
client_modified wrong date
I'm using the Dropbox API endpoint "list_folder" to get some file information, and some have the "client_modified" value very wrong, one of the examples is this: {
"entries...
Здравко
2 years agoLegendary | Level 20
tuliodepadua wrote:...
What could cause such a big difference between these dates?
In general those dates are different things tuliodepadua. 😉 You should NOT expect server_modified and client_modified to be the same!
'server_modified' is guaranteed monotonic time that's server generated. On other side 'client_modified' is a time that match (or can at least) to real modification time of particular file. When not explicitly set, 'client_modified' is set to 'server_modified' server side.
Hope this clarifies matter.
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