Saving and retrieving date in Firebase

Question

I have a model with the following structure

public class OfferModel {
    private String mImageUrl;
    private String mOfferCode;
    private String mOffe         


        

Answer 1

You can store the date as an epoch date. It's a long that you can get using your system time System.currentTimeMillis(); or by using the Firebase server time with their ServerValue.TIMESTAMP. The thing with the first option is that it changes with timezones and system settings. So if you store the date as a long, you just have to change your OfferModel field mStartDate to a long and then use new Date(long) to get the corresponding Date when retrieving the object.