# Twitch subscribe time

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [March 17, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795 "2018-03-17T04:06:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lololoshkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@Lololoshkin](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Lololoshkin)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795/1 "2018-03-17T04:06:54Z")

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Hello. While working with the IPA I encountered a problem. When I display the list of subscribers, I can not get the correct date and time of the subscription.

```auto
   [1] => Array
                (
                    [created_at] => 2018-01-19T15:53:47Z
                    [_id] => 27bd64aef5007e4b7ae16136b291f6dfb3450298
                    [sub_plan] => 1000
                    [sub_plan_name] => Забил Койко-место
                    [is_gift] => 
                    [user] => Array
                        (
                            [display_name] => 0x4f
                            [type] => user
                            [bio] => 
                            [created_at] => 2013-12-21T20:48:32Z
                            [updated_at] => 2018-03-16T18:37:03Z
                            [name] => 0x4f
                            [_id] => 53619875
                            [logo] => https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/318d7d68-7707-4acb-b882-1a6f131ccce5-profile_image-300x300.png
                        )

                    [sender] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [created_at] => 2018-01-19T15:49:16Z
                    [_id] => af002ac2ce0313054794ccddb36971bf2a8b9e1d
                    [sub_plan] => 1000
                    [sub_plan_name] => Забил Койко-место
                    [is_gift] => 
                    [user] => Array
                        (
                            [display_name] => XanderWP
                            [type] => user
                            [bio] => 
                            [created_at] => 2017-05-03T17:50:01Z
                            [updated_at] => 2018-03-16T17:33:31Z
                            [name] => xanderwp
                            [_id] => 155646323
                            [logo] => https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/a2341f5d-a38b-45d9-bd8f-df3438fa8be6-profile_image-300x300.png
                        )

                    [sender] => 
                )

```

There is no proper subscription time within the data set. I hope you can help me in this matter.

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**Author:** ![Six](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/six/32/2334_2.png) [@Six](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Six)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795/2 "2018-03-17T07:15:25Z")

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The field you’re looking for is the `created_at` in the first level of each subscriber in the array. This is the date and time when the user subscribed to the channel. The date-time is just formatted to the [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) specification, and will need to be converted to a usable format.

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**Author:** ![Dist](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/dist/32/7192_2.png) [@Dist](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Dist)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795/3 "2018-03-17T11:43:07Z")

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Just so people are aware though, the `created_at` field is the timestamp of when that subscription object was created, it may not accurately show when a user originally subscribed to the channel. For example, I have a channel where the `created_at` value is about 18 months ago, yet I’ve been subscribed to that channel for over 26 months. The reason for the inconsistency in my case was a change of payment method, but other things like changing sub tier can also affect the results.

Hopefully Helix will have a better channel subscriptions endpoint.

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**Author:** ![Six](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/six/32/2334_2.png) [@Six](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Six)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795/4 "2018-03-17T18:38:59Z")

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This makes me wonder how the free month that Twitch is handing out to people for the cancelled subs will affect `created_at`.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2spem0quai2ol.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-subscribe-time/14795/5 "2018-04-16T18:39:01Z")

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