# API sometimes returns timestamp instead of date time string

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/api-sometimes-returns-timestamp-instead-of-date-time-string/126888>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/api-sometimes-returns-timestamp-instead-of-date-time-string/126888 "2025-02-26T10:44:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/api-sometimes-returns-timestamp-instead-of-date-time-string/126888/4 "2025-02-27T14:46:59Z")

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Thanks for the reply and answer.

I just hoped that we either can identifiy fields doing it this way, using the meta data of the field. And not just guessing using is\_int.

Also it looked stranged because most fields return a DateTime, just that one field…

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