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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...
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThe 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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