Trouble storing a timestamp in a date field

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Last updated by Luo Yang 3 years ago.

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October 28, 2021 at 2:57 pm #2208077

KentS9937

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I am trying to store the current date and time in a date field.

I'm using the following shortcode to get the timestamp.

add_shortcode('wpv-post-today', 'today_shortcode');
function today_shortcode() {
  return time();
}

I have been able to confirm this shortcode is generating the proper timestamp.

Here's how I'm saving the timestamp in the date field.

[cred_field scaffold_field_id='submission-date' field='submission-date' force_type='field' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' value='[wpv-post-today]']

When I display the raw value of the submission-date field I see a different value than the timestamp that was generated by the shortcode. As an example. When the shortcode generated timestamp of 1635431592 the submission-date field stored a value of 1635379200 which is the same date but 12:00am instead of 2:33:12 PM.

I cannot figure out why it's not storing the correct timestamp.

October 29, 2021 at 6:45 am #2208645

Luo Yang

Hello,

please try these:
1) Dashboard-> Toolset-> Custom fields, find and edit the custom field group, find and edit the custom field "submission-date", enable option "Input date and time"

2) Modify your custom PHP codes as below:

add_shortcode('wpv-post-today', 'today_shortcode');
function today_shortcode() {
  return current_time('timestamp');
}

And test again