Topic: restored wallet from backup - times differ (Read 478 times)
That makes total sense. Thanks for the explanation, Foxpup!
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.
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! 
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...
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...
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