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by panarky 1619 days ago
Unfortunately the Serbian registry doesn't provide a timestamp for when each test was taken.

But our intrepid OSINT researcher discovered that the data in the QR code begins with a UNIX timestamp, such as cqcode=1640187792... and cqcode=1640524880...

From that one might infer that the positive test actually happened 4 days after the negative test.

The documents Djokovic provided to the court claim the positive test happened 7 days before the negative test.

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The timestamp seems to refer to the time the test report was downloaded not when the test was conducted.

https://twitter.com/blokovi/status/1480945535620108296

Is there any reason to assume this timestamp represents the time the test was taken, rather than, say, the time the certificate was generated?
We need someone from Serbia who has done this test to verify.
There is someone doing just that in the thread above.
Meanwhile let's all accuse him of being a dirty cheat no matter how implausible such a potentially ruinous fraud on its inevitable discovery.

After all the man is guilty of covid wrongthink, so who knows what depths he'd sink to.

The timeline doesn't look good for him regardless of which theory is correct: https://www.bbc.com/news/59939122
> The timeline doesn't look good for him [..]

There are scientists who state we're at the point where "we need to target the vulnerable" (rather than giving boosters to all over-12s) and that "there [is] no point in trying to stop all infections, and that at some point, society has to open up".

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, chairman of the [UK's] Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is one of them.

The point when society has to open up is when there is enough community immunity that removing mitigations doesn't cause healthcare shortages due to staff infections or resource constraints. That's after Paxlovid is readily available or vaccine mandates have driven up vaccination rates, not today.
Judging by my vaccine confirmation (same system), it's when the certificate was created. In my case the timestamp points to a day after I've received my dose.