How to print Firestore timestamp as formatted date and time

Question

My timestamp returns Timestamp(seconds=1560523991, nanoseconds=286000000) in a Flutter Firestore snapshot.

I want to print it as properly formatted date and

Answer 1

You will get a unix timestamp from firestore even if you send a DateTime to firestore.

You can parse a DateTime from Firestore with DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(timestamp * 1000);

The DateTime class has two option to return a sting. toIso8601String() or toString() choose the one you need. Or use eg. DateTime.now().hour; to get the our and create your own output.

For more information: Check https://api.dartlang.org/stable/2.4.0/dart-core/DateTime-class.html