# Date mismatch on staged user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/date-mismatch-on-staged-user/412726
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** staged-users
**Created:** [September 18, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/date-mismatch-on-staged-user/412726 "2026-09-18T01:58:30Z")
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### Author: ![one1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/one1/32/493591_2.png) [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/date-mismatch-on-staged-user/412726/1 "2026-09-18T01:58:30Z")

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We just got a direct email message to the forum. (obvious spam). The strange thing is that the date of the PM is 11 days ago:

 ![2026-09-18 07_20_19-screenshot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/c/1/2c1a5f94a588aa079e802b8751fee2b5f7510e26.png)

However the staged user is dated as created today (“Joined 4 Hours”):

 ![2026-09-18 07_21_38-screenshot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/1/8/d183f4d75c2be91ff370fe264d2e4ebd4748479f.png)

Any idea what is going on?

I’m hoping that Discourse is not allowing spammers to back date messages. The official date for the message should be the date it is created.

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