Convert ServerValue.TIMESTAMP To date

Question

I have put a button to save the current Date and Time to My Firebase Database .

private void saveTime() {
        DatabaseReference rootRef = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
        rootRef.child(Uid).child("time").setValue(ServerValue.TIMESTAMP);
    }

I am trying to compare the server Date with My saved Date which i putted in my database . So please help me to compare it.

 private void Compare() {

        DatabaseReference rootRef = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();
        DatabaseReference ezzeearnRef = rootRef.child(Uid).child("time");
        ValueEventListener eventListener = new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                if (dataSnapshot.exists()) {
                    Long time = dataSnapshot.getValue(Long.class);
                    assert time != null;
                    Date oldDate = new Date(time);
                    GregorianCalendar oldCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
                    oldCalendar.setTime(oldDate);
                        GregorianCalendar newCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();


                Map<String, String> now = ServerValue.TIMESTAMP;
                newCalendar.setTime((Date) now);

                    if (newCalendar.get(Calendar.DATE) != oldCalendar.get(Calendar.DATE) ||
                            newCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) != oldCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) ||
                            newCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR) != oldCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)

                            ) {
                        // new day starts toast
                    }


                }else{
                    // toast
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {

            }
        };
        ezzeearnRef.addValueEventListener(eventListener);

    }

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '18 at 14:20

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ServerValue.TIMESTAMP is not really timestamp it a Map so you cannot cast it to date like this

Map<String, String> now = ServerValue.TIMESTAMP;
newCalendar.setTime((Date) now);

the timestamp value will be stored from the server

answered Jan 26 '18 at 14:20

Ali Faris

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '18 at 12:00

You are correctly retrieving the timestamp from your database. To compare that timestamp, which is the server timestamp, with the accualt time, you can comparate with the current using the following line of code:

Long currentTimeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis();

Then you can use a simple if statement:

if(time < currentTimeMillis) {
    //Do something
} else {
    //Do something else
}

Convert ServerValue.TIMESTAMP To date

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