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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Consistent Estimater of Transaction Times - Block Timestamp?
by
kjj
on 17/03/2014, 20:50:41 UTC

The closest that you can get meaningfully, is the timestamp of the block.  The timestamp in the block is usually very close* to the actual time that block was found, and is absolutely sure to be within the fuzzy window that the network defines for validity.

* And by "very close", I mean within the "reasonable accuracy of a few minutes" that you are asking for.

Interesting... I've been looking at just that solution. But the problem is that the address-transaction function only gives you the block height, and unless I'm mistaken, blockchain.info doesn't have a function for getting the block from it's block height. My bitcoin-qt client doesn't give me all the blocks in the block chain, either. What's a poor coder to do?  Smiley

bitcoind getblockhash 291050
bitcoind getblock 00000000000000004642ed8eb619f2f84aaf201dbf0ba5fc87c425d040455d5a