Where ist option to save date/time as timestamp?

• aga

• September 20, 2018 at 5:34 pm

Hello.

I cannot find the option to save date/time fields as unix timestamp in database anymore. New entrys are now saved in date Format, so i have problems in frontend. where ist the old saving Option? thanx
Alex

• John Huebner

• September 20, 2018 at 10:21 pm

There isn’t a setting to change how a field is saved in ACF5.

Unfortunately you will need to rework front end code that depended on the value in the DB being in a specific format.

• svsdesign

• January 17, 2019 at 1:38 am

Any other ways / suggestions. So that that I don’t have recode a whole website? Using a filter maybe?

• John Huebner

• January 17, 2019 at 2:07 am

You could probably add an acf/format_value filter for the field https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-format_value/

Please note that the field name and field key variants of the hook are available for this hook, they just are not documented.

Set the priority > 10 and then convert the value form a date into a timestamp in your filter

• ProxxiM

• July 14, 2021 at 9:32 am

I think the option to just save the timestamp should be added.