.claude/context/server.md

@@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ rather than needing a rewrite for multi-account support.
   there is no WebDAV client dependency. `_parseDavDate`/`_davPath` in this
   file exist because WebDAV responses use RFC 1123 dates and either bare
   paths or full URLs for `href`; reuse them rather than re-deriving.
+  `creationdate` specifically needs `_parseDavCreationDate`, not
+  `_parseDavDate` directly - Nextcloud has no real per-file creation-time
+  tracking for most setups, so that property routinely comes back as a
+  placeholder Unix-epoch date rather than being omitted, which
+  `_parseDavDate` alone parses "successfully" into a real (if bogus)
+  January 1970 `DateTime`. `_parseDavCreationDate` treats that placeholder
+  as absent instead, so `NextcloudItem.dateCreated` falls back to
+  `lastModified` (its constructor's default) the same as it would for a
+  missing/unparseable value.
 - **Everything else** (shares, activity, trash, favorites, quota, user info,
   file versions) goes through Nextcloud's OCS APIs (`/ocs/v2.php/...`), JSON
   in, with the `OCS-APIRequest: true` header required on every OCS call.

lib/services/nextcloud_service.dart

@@ -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;