# Contacts API not accepting timestamp

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-api-not-accepting-timestamp/11837>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-api-not-accepting-timestamp/11837 "2018-05-10T05:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![juli1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@juli1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/juli1)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-api-not-accepting-timestamp/11837/3 "2022-07-07T16:53:23Z")

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Looking at the API definition, this is probably the worst design decision I could imagine. Not only engineers need to make sure the timestamp is right at midnight (and will potentially lead to a lot of errors from the API) but the API is not flexible enough to do the conversion itself or accept other types (e.g. datetime) in the form.

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