I think the comment you quoted sums it up pretty closely. It's basically the "date of the transaction" that is shown to users.
Of course there might be bugs though (-: On 21/01/2019 21.57, Oscar Guindzberg wrote: > Hi: > > I don't fully understand what updatedAt is supposed to represent. > > I've read the source code and read the comment here > https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/blob/d953ced801ef425de8ac4fe14447255bc5e383f8/core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/core/Transaction.java#L132-L136. > > The variable is set or modified in these cases: > - Tx creation by user - wallet.commit() -> tx.setUpdateTime() > - Tx broadcasted by the network - wallet.commit() -> tx.setUpdateTime() > - Tx included in a block (but only on some specific scenarios) - > tx.setBlockAppearance() > - When bitcoinj was not aware of the tx before it received the block. > - When block time is before creation/broadcast time. > - When there was a reorg and the tx is now included in a mainchain > block with a timestamp that is previous to updatedAt value. > > It makes the impression the field is supposed to represent the first > time the wallet was aware of the tx existence. I am not sure that is > the case because the code does not do exactly that. > > The subject was partly discussed on: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bitcoinj/05TJbxAwKXs/eeCJeuvJDwAJ > and > https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/issues/1507 > > So... > What updatedAt is supposed to represent exactly? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
