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		Elect2 on Oct 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is Hacker News API returning wrong “time”? Recently developing a tool and I found this happed very common. You can see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268584 is "5 hours ago", but from my tool(https://hn.okphp.com/?k=digital,postgres ) it is "3 days ago"(my tool is using official api timestamp)

Elect2 on Oct 19, 2019 [–]

I guess it is caused by re-posting. But the api returns the "time" the link first posted.

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