What information does the value in ContentChangedAt represent

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As title suggestes, what does the number mean in the ContentChangedAt represent/mean. It’s included in a ‘Directory’ in the MediaContainer returned from this call:

https://{IP-description}.{identifier}.plex.direct:{port}/library/sections/all

I’ve tried everything to decifer what it could mean but am stumped.

Its not the standard Unix date/time number (as the CreatedAt, UpdatedAt, etc.), and I’ve tried using milliseconds, microseconds but no combination returns any kind of normal date/time so assuming it’s not a date/time.

So is it some form a date/time or some ID (as its a pure number it’s not a GUID and the number large (in64, long), a cleaned up example is 30000000000000.

More curious than anything but it’s bugging me as doesn’t seem to be anywhere I can find that explains it.

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It’s just a number that is incremented every time a change is made. It’s a shared value across the database used in various places to mark the point at which something changed.

I.e. it’s a ChangeStamp.

It’s only really used internally, you don’t need to worry about it.

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Thanks was thinking that might be the answer having done some more working on plex providers. Maybe an update of the documentation might be useful for esp. for people working on the custom metadata providers (which is how I came across it).