How can I serverTimeStamp to Date?

Question

  const docRef = await addDoc(collection(db, "question"), {
    title: writingTitle,
    createdAt: serverTimestamp(),
  });

If you write servertimestamp() when you write, the console window says {seconds=123123123, nanosecond=!@!@}} like this. How can I change this to Date on the web?

refer [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34718668/firebase-timestamp-to-date-and-time) — gretal, Dec 22 '21 at 06:34

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '21 at 15:23

To convert a Firestore timestamp to a date, call toDate() on it after reading the value from the database. For more on this, see the reference docs.

There is no way to get the value before that/without reading it, as serverTimestamp() only generates a token value/sentinel that the database server recognizes as a signal to write the date/time.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '23 at 20:03

Here's how I do it (with Typescript / React Native):

  const docRef = await addDoc(collection(db, "question"), {
    title: writingTitle,
    createdAt: serverTimestamp(),
  });
  const docSnapshot = await docRef.get();
  //Then get any data from the added object
  const timestamp = docSnapshot.data().createdAt

How can I serverTimeStamp to Date?

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