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Block Time vs Created Time

Open tiger5226 opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Created time is when we find out about the transaction. Usually this is from when we read it from the mempool. However, with a full resync of chainquery this would be much sooner. In these cases the block explorer should show block time for both fields. If the gap is more than 1 hour a part make them both the blocktime value.

tiger5226 avatar Feb 05 '19 02:02 tiger5226

This may be confusing to users (just got me!), we should get it fixed up....

tzarebczan avatar Mar 18 '19 16:03 tzarebczan

I don't think it makes sense to show Created Time, except if it's a mempool transaction. Other explorers show a block time as Transaction time, and add a confirmation time :

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So I would suggest removing Created Time and showing only Block Time, except for mempool transactions, and maybe add a confirmation time with less visibility.

marcdeb1 avatar Jan 08 '21 10:01 marcdeb1