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

This is how I managed to store Date on Firebase by using the SimpleDateFormat to convert it to only a date without seconds, hours or milliseconds.

public void storeDatetoFirebase() {

    handler = new Handler();

    runnable = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            handler.postDelayed(this, 1000);
            try {
                Date date = new Date();
                Date newDate = new Date(date.getTime() + (604800000L * 2) + (24 * 60 * 60));
                SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
                String stringdate = dt.format(newDate);

                System.out.println("Submission Date: " + stringdate);
                DatabaseReference databaseReference = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference().child("My_Date");
                databaseReference.child("init_date").setValue(stringdate);

            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    };
    handler.postDelayed(runnable, 1 * 1000);
}

and this is how it appears on Firebase:

Hope it helps..