Fix every item's "created" date reading January 1970

Nextcloud's WebDAV server has no real per-file creation-time tracking
for most setups, so its creationdate property routinely comes back as
a placeholder Unix-epoch date ("Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT")
instead of being omitted. _parseDavDate parsed that "successfully"
into a real (if bogus) DateTime, so every item's dateCreated stuck at
the epoch instead of falling back to lastModified as it would for a
genuinely missing/unparseable value.

Add _parseDavCreationDate, which treats that placeholder the same as
an absent value, and use it at all four PROPFIND/SEARCH call sites
that read creationdate (folder listing, search, favorites, recent).
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2026-09-28 17:37:03 -04:00
parent 72472c771a
commit 1b8bbaa22f
2 changed files with 26 additions and 4 deletions
+17 -4
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@@ -44,6 +44,19 @@ DateTime? _parseDavDate(String? raw) {
}
}
/// Nextcloud's WebDAV server has no real per-file creation-time tracking
/// for most setups, so its `creationdate` property routinely comes back as
/// a placeholder Unix-epoch date ("Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT") instead
/// of being omitted - [_parseDavDate] parses that "successfully" into a
/// real (if bogus) `DateTime`, so every item's created date read January
/// 1970. Treat it as absent instead, the same as a missing/unparseable
/// value: `NextcloudItem`'s constructor then falls back to `lastModified`.
DateTime? _parseDavCreationDate(String? raw) {
final parsed = _parseDavDate(raw);
if (parsed != null && parsed.millisecondsSinceEpoch <= 0) return null;
return parsed;
}
/// The OCS Activity API reports each event's time as an ISO 8601 string in
/// a `datetime` field (e.g. "2025-09-15T12:34:56+00:00") - there is no
/// numeric `timestamp` field despite that being a very easy name to guess.
@@ -356,7 +369,7 @@ class NextcloudService {
final size = int.tryParse(sizeStr ?? '0') ?? 0;
final lastMod = _parseDavDate(lastModStr) ?? DateTime.now();
final created = _parseDavDate(createdStr);
final created = _parseDavCreationDate(createdStr);
final itemType = NextcloudItem.deduceType(name, isCollection, mimeType);
final validId = (fileId != null && fileId.isNotEmpty) ? fileId : name;
@@ -671,7 +684,7 @@ class NextcloudService {
final size = int.tryParse(sizeStr ?? '0') ?? 0;
final lastMod = _parseDavDate(lastModStr) ?? DateTime.now();
final created = _parseDavDate(createdStr);
final created = _parseDavCreationDate(createdStr);
final itemType = NextcloudItem.deduceType(name, false, mimeType);
final validId = (fileId != null && fileId.isNotEmpty) ? fileId : name;
@@ -835,7 +848,7 @@ class NextcloudService {
final size = int.tryParse(sizeStr ?? '0') ?? 0;
final lastMod = _parseDavDate(lastModStr) ?? DateTime.now();
final created = _parseDavDate(createdStr);
final created = _parseDavCreationDate(createdStr);
final itemType = NextcloudItem.deduceType(name, isCollection, mimeType);
final validId = (fileId != null && fileId.isNotEmpty) ? fileId : name;
@@ -1000,7 +1013,7 @@ class NextcloudService {
final size = int.tryParse(sizeStr ?? '0') ?? 0;
final lastMod = _parseDavDate(lastModStr) ?? DateTime.now();
final created = _parseDavDate(createdStr);
final created = _parseDavCreationDate(createdStr);
final itemType = NextcloudItem.deduceType(name, false, mimeType);
final validId = (fileId != null && fileId.isNotEmpty) ? fileId : name;