Hidden date field has different value than the submission date?

Hi @applecarrot

I hope you’re well today!

A “hidden date” in this case means that users cannot select the date themselves when submitting the form, right? It’s a field of type “hidden”, I suppose?

I admit I didn’t encounter such issue so far but I can’t rule out anything yet. It would be helpful if you knew how to replicate this on purpose but if you don’t, we’d need to do some more testing.

Would you mind sharing the form in question with us so we could test with this specific form?

You can export the form from Forminator and then put export code on pastebin.com or export file on your Google Drive, Dropbox or similar account and post direct link to it in your response here.

Let me know also what is exact date/time format set on your site (on “Settings -> Geenral” page, please.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi @applecarrot

Thank you for the update.

It seems the issue is related to WordPress timezone,

I checked the Forminator source code for the hidden field the code is:

case 'date_mdy':
$value = date_i18n( 'm/d/Y', forminator_local_timestamp(), true );
break;
case 'date_dmy':
$value = date_i18n( 'd/m/Y', forminator_local_timestamp(), true );
break;

And the forminator_local_timestamp() that we use to get timestamp:

function forminator_local_timestamp( $timestamp = null ) {
// If no timestamp, get it current.
if ( is_null( $timestamp ) ) {
    $timestamp = time();
}

return $timestamp + ( get_option( 'gmt_offset' ) * 3600 );
}

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/8400/how-to-get-wordpress-time-zone-setting

You will see that we use the WordPress timezone option, I suggest set it to +2 to match your server timezone or the timezone from your location.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hello @applecarrot !

I’ve checked this further once more and I think it can actually be an issue caused by the caching.

After importing the form, I’ve noticed that on the Behaviour tab the Load form using Ajax option was not enabled. Without that option, it’s possible that the page caching will cache the form’s HTML along with the data which is included in the Hidden field.

It’s possible that the cache was cleared on the previous day and the data got “frozen” in place when someone visited the page with the form.

Can you try enabling loading via Ajax and see if that helps?

Warm regards,
Pawel