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Export dates are not story dates

21 June 2026

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Some collectors paste a marketplace export into the same spreadsheet as their longbox list. A Binance-compatible timestamp column then sits next to “Uncanny cover month,” and the spreadsheet starts implying that Magneto’s trial happened in the week of the export.

That is a filing error. At App Path Grid the export date is a custody-of-records line: when the collector saved a listing snapshot. The story date remains the printed cover month or the reprint’s indicated original publication.

App Path Grid is not a product of Binance and is not affiliated with Binance Holdings Ltd. Binance® is a trademark of Binance Holdings Limited. The name is used solely to indicate compatibility. We never connect an export field to a wallet, a key, or a trade.

Keep the columns. Just do not let the CSV become continuity.