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martychaos
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago
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The Badge shows a file was edited 420 years ago

Is anyone else having issues with Badge, randomly showing "<user> last edited this file 420 years ago".   it seems to affect both mac and windows users and appears to be random- in that we can't ...
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  • maxxkayne's avatar
    maxxkayne
    3 years ago

    I know this issue sucks big time, and I hate being the bearer of bad news...but

     

    https://help.dropbox.com/installs/badge-overview

     

    The timing and exact functionality of these features may change, and Dropbox doesn't provide warranties on the performance of these features.

     

     

Peter H.87's avatar
Peter H.87
Collaborator | Level 10
4 years ago

If anyone is curious about 1601, it's because computers store the file modification time as the number of intervals that have elapsed since the "epoch", aka Time Zero, and on Windows, the epoch is January 1st 1601 (Why is the Win32 epoch January 1, 1601? - The Old New Thing (microsoft.com))

Hence if the stored file time defaults to zero, it'll come out as 1/1/1601, i.e. 421 years ago.

We see this pretty often at work but it's more a cause of mirth than inconvenience, it always sorts itself out after a short while.

Tee Dub's avatar
Tee Dub
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Sorts itself out? We've been waiting for years. We would like dropbox to either remove the badge indication of time since edited or fix it.

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