Allow read in FireStore rules based on timestamp value in document

Question

I want to create a FireStore rule that grantes read privilages to documents after the current date has surpassed a timestamp value in the document.

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Answer 1

NOTE: As this is my first answer on Stack Overflow, I wasn't allowed to comment on Frank van Pueffelen's answer, so just as a heads-up, the credits for this solution are his!

The request has a request.time which is a timestamp, and Firestore allows for basic math operators on timestamp <> timestamp operations, so your request.time < resource.data.date will work ;)

service cloud.firestore {
  match /databases/{database}/documents {
    match /Articles/{article}{
   allow read: if request.time < resource.data.date
    }
  }
}

This is based on my personal testing on 2018.09.29