# Possible to change joined date?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-change-joined-date/31331>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Julho 23, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-change-joined-date/31331 "2015-07-23T06:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/krilnon/32/115150_2.png) [@krilnon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [Julho 23, 2015, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-change-joined-date/31331/6 "2015-07-23T07:56:23Z")

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I did some manual join date modification for some of the oldest users on a forum when I migrated. Like Jeff suggested, you basically need to pick out the users manually, like so:

```ruby
user = User.find_by(username: 'krilnon')
user.created_at = Time.now
# user.created_at = Time.parse('2013-02-04 3:00 PM') # to backdate
user.save!

```

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