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Asked: 2026-06-15T21:49:59+00:00

I am making a registration form with 8-10 fields. Apart from this I have

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I am making a registration form with 8-10 fields. Apart from this I have 2 other fields in my database, userid which is a primary key wioth auto incrementation and an active field, whether the user is active or not. But I want to add one more field, that is the registration date and store it in IST (Indian Standard Time)

When I click my profile link in stackoverflow, I see that I have registered X months back and I have visited the site X number of times. I want to add a similar feature to the profile of my users which displays the exact date and time when they were registered! Ex, member since: 28/7/2001! Something like that.

Do I have to do any tweak in my registration form? Or do I have to do any other thing? I searched on google and stackoverflow for the same, searched the php and mysql documentation too, saw a lot of things about dates and timestamps but I don’t know how to go about, didn’t get exactly what I wanted and wasn’t convinced enough. Please help me solve this problem.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You don’t need to tweak your form.

    Just add field “registration_date” to your “user” table.

    Set it to the current date when inserting a new user.

    This can be done at the database level.

    Something like this:

    INSERT INTO `user` ( `registration_date`, other fields...) 
VALUES (NOW(), other values...);

    Your form doesn’t need to pass “registration_date” to the database.

    Be aware that NOW() function returns the database server datetime.

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