Hi I’m noticing that, randomly, some of my users get a wrong created date. For example, one just signed up and I see:
Signup date: 21/02/2025, 20:01:50 CET
User creation date: 20/02/25, 22:34:58 CET
I know something similar happened in the past
Is this a bug?
Hey @gianluca1. I’m looking at Bubble’s documentation on this topic. It seems that Bubble creates the thing or user and assigns the creation date automatically. Can you check the logs tab to make sure it’s a bug?
Please, keep me informed
The Creation Date is the date the User was created.
It’s not the date they signed up.
There can be up to 3 days difference between the User creation date and the date they sign up, as Users are created the moment they land on your app for the first time and stored (as a temporary user) for 3 days.
Hi both, thanks. Yes after reading more I learned that a user (e.g. 1740409636495x307974587128168960) is created as soon as he lands to the page at T1. If he returns to the page at T2, he will still be identified as the same user. If at T2 he signs up, the user creation date will be T1.
I now tried to add a “log the user out” before the signup step hoping to reset the user id but I’m not sure it will work. I would need to create a field “Signup date” but I already built loads of WFs that make calculations on the Creation Date and I’d rather avoid looking for them and changing them…
I avoided this issue with the setting “Do not set cookies on new visitors by default” and by setting no default values on any fields in the User data type. This way, no users are added until they sign up. and their created date is their sign up date. But I realize that not every app can be set up this way.
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