# Updating a date/time contact custom field through a campaign

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/updating-a-date-time-contact-custom-field-through-a-campaign/11983>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 11, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/updating-a-date-time-contact-custom-field-through-a-campaign/11983 "2019-12-11T17:52:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![luckow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/luckow/32/1021_2.png) [@luckow](https://forum.mautic.org/u/luckow)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/updating-a-date-time-contact-custom-field-through-a-campaign/11983/1 "2019-12-11T17:52:56Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 2.15.3  
My PHP version is: 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

**Your problem**  
My goal is: I want to set a timestamp through a campaign into a custom date/time field.

 ![screenshot1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/e/ecd66a566e892f83846af9f99edacb2048b579e3.png)

I put in a “now” into the action “Update contact” (see screenshot 1) but in the moment i press “update” and the modal closes, the now is transformed into the actual time. Everytime i reopen the action i see the date/time of the creation and not a “now”.

 ![screenshot2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/7/77507d20401a170c981052420fc6e1f0f1cb72f4.png)

And yes: this (creation) timestamp is in every contact.

Am I on the wrong way to my goal?

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**Author:** ![steverobinson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/steverobinson/32/174_2.png) [@steverobinson](https://forum.mautic.org/u/steverobinson)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/updating-a-date-time-contact-custom-field-through-a-campaign/11983/2 "2020-02-13T21:05:35Z")

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This seems like the “Mautic” way to do this. That said it would be a feature request at this point.

I can’t think of any other way to do it, and I have the same need. I may try to get the development done and pushed to the project.

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**Author:** ![luckow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/luckow/32/1021_2.png) [@luckow](https://forum.mautic.org/u/luckow)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/updating-a-date-time-contact-custom-field-through-a-campaign/11983/3 "2020-02-14T11:11:19Z")

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At the moment there is no “built-in” solution. It should go into a feature request. Right now, “my” problem is: status: solved.