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tuliodepadua
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2 years ago

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...
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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

The client_modified time can be set arbitrarily by the uploading client, so it can contain a significantly different datetime than server_modified. In particular, I believe the Dropbox desktop client takes the local modified time from the filesystem for client_modified when uploading the file. 

 

In this case, it seems that whatever wrote that file to the local filesystem originally committed it with a future local modified time, and then the Dropbox client accordingly uploaded the future value.

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