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<p dir="auto">Maybe <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/zerebubuth/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/zerebubuth">@zerebubuth</a> can help though after 15 years he may have forgotten ;-)</p>
<p dir="auto">It looks a lot like it was all part of the api 0.6 work that introduced changesets and wasn't responding to any specific need, just trying to anticipate requirements.</p>
<p dir="auto">I guess using creation time is problematic if you want to find recent changes as a changeset may vanish from that query while it's still getting edits - making everything use close time would avoid that although it means trying to page through wouldn't give completely consistent results.</p>

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