How to get REAL start time

Welcome to the forum, @Elvi_Web! When you get a chance, please introduce yourself here. I'd also encourage you to add a real picture as your avatar because it helps build community.

We get time from the device clock, so if that clock is wrong, then yes, your start time will be wrong. It sounds like you are interested in catching poorly trained or malicious enumerators?

The best way to do that is with the form audit log. In the audit log, we only use device time for the form start timestamp. All subsequent event timestamps are the result of elapsed time, which users cannot change, added to the form start timestamp.

This means that while the timestamps themselves may potentially be inaccurate, the time elapsed within and between the timestamps are always accurate within one form editing session.

One caveat is that if you don't control and lock down what apps are on the device, then an enterprising enumerator can use a file browser to tamper with that log.

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