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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": [
{
".tag": "file",
"name": "-----.Zip",
"path_lower": "/-----.zip",
"path_display": "/-----.Zip",
"id": "id:-----",
"client_modified": "2038-01-19T03:14:07Z",
"server_modified": "2024-03-18T16:59:39Z",
"rev": "613f248841bbf5a8d0a0a",
"size": 1243946,
"is_downloadable": true,
"content_hash": "cf5afda0631632b1a4c3520mb52031d6531c090e37c16be0dcf"
}
],
"cursor": "8LVAltTbbQqgSh5Hqiz4YFUZpRHC1U5YIkivBjOFE5tpk5OIgvmYVwUw",
"has_more": true
}
These files are uploaded using the Dropbox client for Windows.
What could cause such a big difference between these dates?
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.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
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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