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Title: restored wallet from backup - times differ Post by: CloudySkies on June 14, 2016, 08:25:28 AM I recently restore my wallet.dat from a backup since my current one appeared to be corrupted (or at least, it kept causing Bitcoin-Qt to crash). That worked, and all my Bitcoins are still there, phew! :P
One thing I noticed though is that the transaction times are slightly different, usually a few minutes later than in my original wallet. Can anyone tell me why? I'm assuming it's something to do with the way the Blockchain works, but I couldn't find any info on this. Thanks in advance... Title: Re: restored wallet from backup - times differ Post by: Foxpup on June 14, 2016, 10:05:50 AM The wallet.dat file stores (among other metadata) the actual time each transaction was made, and this metadata will naturally not be present for transactions made after the backup (discovered during a rescan of the blockchain). For such transactions, the time displayed will be the timestamp of the block it was included in, which will generally be several minutes later.
Title: Re: restored wallet from backup - times differ Post by: CloudySkies on June 14, 2016, 03:54:18 PM That makes total sense. Thanks for the explanation, Foxpup!
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