# Inconsistent Time Data

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/inconsistent-time-data/973>\
**Category:** Alpaca Market Data\
**Created:** [March 17, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/inconsistent-time-data/973 "2020-03-17T15:49:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Winser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@Winser](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Winser)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/inconsistent-time-data/973/4 "2020-05-20T19:34:24Z")

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This issue was discussed in another post and a fix was made. I believe it was due to leap day.

> [@Data.alpaca.markets does not return data for requested dates](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/data-alpaca-markets-does-not-return-data-for-requested-dates/994):
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> Hi Alpaca Staff and @hitoshi, This is similar to [Data.alpaca.markets returns quotes from incorrect dates](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/data-alpaca-markets-returns-quotes-from-incorrect-dates/992) in the programming forum. I’m using R’s httr:GET to request the following URL: "https://data.alpaca.markets/v1/bars/5Min?symbols=FB,NFLX,AMZN,MSFT&limit=1000&start=2020-02-05T09:30:00-0500&end=2020-02-24T14:45:00-0500" I’ve also tried the request with the URL encoded form of the request: "https://data.alpaca.markets/v1/bars/5Min?symbols=FB%2CNFLX%2CAMZN%2CMSFT&limit=1000&start=2020-02-05…

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