Transaction Timestamps

Question

Guys

I've just noticed that when you use a combination of getrawtransaction & decoderawtransaction to inspect any transaction on the blockchain, no timestamp information is provided.  Ideally we would need this data to be returned so that consumers can verify the authenticity of a transaction including when it occurred??

{"method":"getrawtransaction","params":["047bccde50b678662a9e4a6052ec9dd7740638735dbbc65e862b827cb3549a8d"],"id":1,"chain_name":"test-chain"}

{"method":"decoderawtransaction","params":["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"],"id":1,"chain_name":"test-chain"}

 

Cheers

Marty

Answer 1

Transactions are timestamped by the block in which they appear - see the time field in the response to getblock. There is no timestamp inside transactions themselves.

Comments

I have replied to this via a new question rather than with a comment....apols,

Marty

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In my case, when i convert the timestamp (blocktime) to a date i get a wrong date (days before the transaction itself)
is it normal?

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It should not happen - is the time set correctly on the server?

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Yes the time is set correctly on the server.
I 've just sent another transaction and got 29th of june for time

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OK. Are you calling getblock for the right block? How are you specifying the block - by block number or block hash?

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by block hash

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And you're using the block hash of the block which actually contains the transaction you're interested in? How are you finding that block's hash?

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I find the block time of the block which contains the transaction with getrawtransaction
I verfy the time using getblock with the block that contains the transaction and i get a similar time

UPDATE : when i tried the getwallettransaction i got the right time but i'm afraid this won't be doable from another node. I need a command that get the time of a certain txid from any node.

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If I understand it right you see the following in the output of getwallettransaction:
On the node you are sending transaction from:
timereceived - right, time - right, blocktime - wrong (in the past, before timereceived)
On other node:
timereceived - may be right, time - wrong, blocktime - wrong

This can happen if some of your nodes (not necessarily the node you are checking) have wrong date, especially if the node is a miner. MultiChain nodes don't rely on their own time and take average from other nodes.
Please check all nodes and let me know if it is not a case.

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Thanks a lot! it really helped
One of the nodes had wrong date.