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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: When exactly is the time in a block updated?
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Quantus
on 30/04/2017, 10:02:14 UTC
The timestamp may or may not be accurate. It is up to the miner. There is no requirement regarding the time stamp except that it must be within 1 or 2 hours of the actual time (actually it is a little more complicated than that). Miners may also use it to vary the hash.

So miners can vary the time stamp, the transaction IDs and even the block version number to tweak the output during hashing to gain mining efficiency?