XF 2.2 merge user join date

[Martyn]

our forums fairly old and a lot of the time people forget they had an account or forget emails etc

my question is when merging users do they keep the oldest date or the newest date?

e.g

Bob Joined 2021
Bobbob joined 2022,

I merge bob into bobbob, would it have 2021 or 2022?

regards
Martyn

 

[whynot]

IMO it should be 2021.

Bobbob posted in 2022, his post(s) appearing after Bob's 2021 post(s).

 

[Martyn]

That's what I thought, buy @Brogan did reply.. but he removed it so now I'm not to sure haha

 

[Paul B]

I misread the post.

The join date of the account will be adjusted to be prior to the first content date.

 

[Kirby]

Bob Joined 2021
Bobbob joined 2022,

I merge bob into bobbob, would it have 2021 or 2022?

It would be 2021, it's always the min value of source and target:

$this->target->register_date = min($this->target->register_date, $this->source->register_date);

Though it does not get adjusted to be older than timestamp of the oldest post after merge.

 

[Martyn]

just tested on the Xenforo demo (forgot about this), it did although it only worked in minutes, it did work, so it took the older date.

thanks, guys.