Save ACF field with actual now date and time

• Stevan George

• June 14, 2020 at 8:20 pm

I’m building a check-in form that showed in front-end. I’m using ACF date and time picker to get actual time when the user clicks the submit button.

The problem is: ACF date and time picker, well, is a picker.

What I want is the user no need to pick the actual date and time. But when users submit the form, the actual time (when submitting) is saved into ACF date-time field.

How to fill the date and time field with the current date and time when the user clicks the submit button?

Thank you.

• John Huebner

• June 14, 2020 at 10:44 pm

add_action('acf/save_post', 'set_submit_time');
set_submit_time($post_id) {
  // field key of date/time field
  // use field key
  update_field('field_XXXXXXX', data(Y-m-d H:i:s'), $post_id);
}

• Stevan George

• June 14, 2020 at 11:41 pm

@hube2 you are really a savior. Thanks for helping.

There’s a bit typo, but really, you save the day. So for anyone else out there, here’s the functional code:

# Save the actual time when user click submit
add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'set_submit_time' );
function set_submit_time($post_id) {
	update_field('field_XXXXXX', date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $post_id);
}

You can add within functions.php or your singlepage.php before the acf_form_head();

Oh and also, if you need to get local time, change the date to this:

update_field('field_XXXXXX', date('Y-m-d H:i:s', current_time( 'timestamp', 0 )), $post_id);