topic Epoch time millisecond in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/epoch-time-millisecond/m-p/834984#M19388 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear all,</P><P></P><P>I'm gonna use Epoch time millisecond for my ID for forms, do i face duplicate IDs in future ? i cant use format-date()&nbsp;</P><P>because some clients using smartphones Arabic region based so we receive Arabic numeric ID. I tried with epoch time the ID will not convert to Arabic&nbsp;numeric even&nbsp;their smartphones based Arabic region. thank you in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:24:27 GMT RawandDizayee 2019-03-16T12:24:27Z Epoch time millisecond https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/epoch-time-millisecond/m-p/834984#M19388 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear all,</P><P></P><P>I'm gonna use Epoch time millisecond for my ID for forms, do i face duplicate IDs in future ? i cant use format-date()&nbsp;</P><P>because some clients using smartphones Arabic region based so we receive Arabic numeric ID. I tried with epoch time the ID will not convert to Arabic&nbsp;numeric even&nbsp;their smartphones based Arabic region. thank you in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:24:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/epoch-time-millisecond/m-p/834984#M19388 RawandDizayee 2019-03-16T12:24:27Z Re: Epoch time millisecond https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/epoch-time-millisecond/m-p/834985#M19389 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Rawand</P><P></P><P>Epoche time is seconds from 0:00:00 1/1/1970 - so you will only get duplicates if two surveys are submitted at the same time. Please take a look at the following blog which covers other approaches for generating unique IDs.&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/11/25/creating-ticket-numbers-in-survey123-for-arcgis">https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/11/25/creating-ticket-numbers-in-survey123-for-arcgis</A>&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Thanks<BR />John</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:32:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/epoch-time-millisecond/m-p/834985#M19389 JohnathanHasthorpe 2019-03-17T23:32:51Z