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Seems to me it would be great if civiCRM had a custom field called "TimeStamp", but alas, there isn't.

So here's my issue, I have a profile we are using to collect information from individuals who want to be Volunteers.

My client wants to run a monthly report where they can filter by "date submitted". If there was a custom field called "TimeStamp", then we could filter on that to retrieve only Profiles created during a specific date range.

In lieu of the above, is there a way I can populate a custom date field with the current timestamp at the time the profile is submitted? Of course, we'd not want this field to be edittable by the user, but it must be searchable via the backend.

Any ideas how I can accomplish this?