<p>Have a look into the hex form.</p>

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2018-01-26T12:45:32.877Z
2018-01-26T12:45:32.877Z
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<p>I'm trying to figure out the size of the block</p>

<p>and i have trouble calculating the number of bytes of time</p>

<p>one block has time like this:
"time":1516430234</p>

<p>After counting the bytes, the value is :5</p>

<p>This is a mistake, since it should be only 4</p>

<p>Does anyone know the solution?</p>

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2018-01-27T09:30:03.263Z
looking at bitcoin.org, and the blockchain reference, it says: "The block time is a Unix epoch time when the miner started hashing the header (according to the miner). Must be strictly greater than the median time of the previous 11 blocks...". So it is unclear, how you come to 5 or 4, maybe you can explain, what you do?
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bitcoin: time of block size
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# bitcoin: time of block size

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-26)

I'm trying to figure out the size of the block

and i have trouble calculating the number of bytes of time

one block has time like this:
"time":1516430234

After counting the bytes, the value is :5

This is a mistake, since it should be only 4

Does anyone know the solution?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, bitcoind, bitcoin-core-development

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: looking at bitcoin.org, and the blockchain reference, it says: "The block time is a Unix epoch time when the miner started hashing the header (according to the miner). Must be strictly greater than the median time of the previous 11 blocks...". So it is unclear, how you come to 5 or 4, maybe you can explain, what you do?  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2018-01-26. Score: 2

Have a look into the hex form.

[![](https://i.sstatic.net/7bwIZ.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/7bwIZ.png)


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