Ask HN: Is Hacker News API returning wrong “time”?

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The way moderator post repromoting via the second-chance pool works will cause such a discrepancy in the API.<p>It is not ideal.

Recently developing a tool and I found this happed very common.<p>You can see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21268584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21268584</a> is &quot;5 hours ago&quot;, but from my tool(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.okphp.com&#x2F;?k=digital,postgres" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.okphp.com&#x2F;?k=digital,postgres</a> ) it is &quot;3 days ago&quot;(my tool is using official api timestamp)

I dont understand why the item page shows “5 hours ago”, but if you filter by domain : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=sivers.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=sivers.org</a>, the same item is labeled “3 days ago”, so the API is rather correct. Maybe the timestamp shown on the item page is incorrect, or that the url was re-submitted?

I noticed that when one of my posts is resubmitted (via second-chance pool) it seems to appear with the time of the resubmit and not the time I posted it originally. I observed this on the website, I never checked the API and maybe this is unrelated to the original question from above. It may even be intentional but probably not many posters know about it.