How to print Firestore timestamp as formatted date and time

Question

My timestamp returns Timestamp(seconds=1560523991, nanoseconds=286000000) in a Flutter Firestore snapshot.

I want to print it as properly formatted date and

Answer 1

Once you've got a timestamp back from Firestore, something like

Timestamp(seconds=1560523991, nanoseconds=286000000)

you need to parse it into an object of type DateTime:

DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.parse(timestamp.toDate().toString());

 print('$myDateTime');

This will give you something like:

2020-05-09 15:27:04.074

You can then format myDateTime like this:

String formattedDateTime =
          DateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd – kk:mm').format(myDateTime);

print('$formattedDateTime');

That will give you:

2020-05-09 – 15:27