Storing Date input values on Firebase

Question

So this is how my code looks like

cropref.child(mycrop.name).push({
                          cropname:mycrop.name,
                          croplocation:mycro         


        

Answer 1

Two options

1) Store the date in a more generic, but human readable format, so right now would be Sunday November 27 at 09:13:38

20161127091338

2) Store the date as a unix timestamp (in milliseconds) using

(new Date).getTime() / 1000

There are a lot of variants to #2 so do some research to see which is best for your use case.

You can save either answer as a string but #1 would be more easily searchable since queries wouldn't require any kind of conversions - to see todays events

queryStartingAt("20161127") and queryEndingAt("20161127")