# Dear Sir/Madam

**URL:** <https://forum.dimagi.com/t/dear-sir-madam/1739>\
**Category:** Users\
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/dear-sir-madam/1739 "2014-05-06T05:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tewelde\_Aregawi](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Tewelde\_Aregawi](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Tewelde_Aregawi)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/dear-sir-madam/1739/1 "2014-05-06T05:14:31Z")

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How can be a form submitted before completed? when i look on Form  
Completion Vs Submission trends on the Difference it says Sbmitted Before  
completed [strange]  
what will be the cause for this result?

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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_W](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jeremy\_W](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Jeremy_W)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/dear-sir-madam/1739/2 "2014-05-06T05:20:13Z")

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Hello,

More detail on Form Completion vs Form Submission times can be found on  
this page:  
[https://help.commcarehq.org/display/commcarepublic/Form+Completion+versus+Form+Submission](https://help.commcarehq.org/display/commcarepublic/Form+Completion+versus+Form+Submission)

Specifically, when the form submission time is before completion time, it  
is often the case that the phone's time is wrong.

Hope this helps,

Jeremy

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> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Tewelde Aregawi wrote:
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> > How can be a form submitted before completed? when i look on Form  
> > Completion Vs Submission trends on the Difference it says Sbmitted Before  
> > completed [strange]  
> > what will be the cause for this result?
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