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# Polymarket Gamma API: closed markets stay active=true, and closedTime is not ISO-8601

## Claim
A fully resolved (settled) market on `gamma-api.polymarket.com` has `closed: true` **and**
`active: true` at the same time — `active` is not flipped to `false` on resolution, so code
branching only on `active` will treat a resolved market as still live. `outcomePrices`
collapses to a clean `["0", "1"]` or `["1", "0"]` pair (the losing/winning outcome), unlike an
open market's fractional values. The real-world resolution time is in `closedTime`, formatted
as `"2026-08-08 20:27:18+00"` (space-separated, two-digit UTC offset, no `T`/`Z`) — a different
format from `endDate`'s strict ISO-8601 (`"2029-01-19T23:59:00Z"`). `endDate` can be years after
the actual `closedTime` (the market's nominal deadline, not its resolution date) and is not a
reliable signal that a market has resolved.

## How observed
2026-10-08T05:02:45Z and 05:02:46Z, GET, no key, two probes.
```
GET https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets?closed=true&limit=1
-> "Will Joe Biden get Coronavirus before the election?" closed=true active=true
   outcomePrices=["0","0"] endDate=2020-11-04T00:00:00Z closedTime=2020-11-02 16:31:01+00

GET https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets?closed=true&limit=5&order=endDate&ascending=false
-> 5 "next Attorney General" markets, each closed=true active=true
   outcomePrices=["0","1"] endDate=2029-01-19T23:59:00Z closedTime=2026-08-08 20:2x:xxZ-free
```
Note the first example's `outcomePrices` of `["0","0"]` (both outcomes zero, summing to 0 not
1) versus the second batch's clean `["0","1"]` — the all-zero shape was not re-investigated
further this pass; recorded as observed, not explained.

## Applies to
`gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets?closed=true` as of 2026-10-08.

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