Display Date (not time) from Firestore Timestamp

Question

I\'m pulling a timestamp from a Firestore database, and I only want to display the date to the user. The original timestamp is

Timestamp(seconds=1555477200,         


        

Answer 1

You can use Date.toLocaleString() like this:

new Date(date).toLocaleString('en-EN', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' });

const timestamp = 1555477200000;
console.log(
   new Date(timestamp).toLocaleString('en-EN', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' })
);

Answer 2

If you have a particular format for date, you can do

function getDate (timestamp=Date.now()) {
    const date = new Date(timestamp);
    let dd = date.getDate();
    let mm = date.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
    const yyyy = date.getFullYear();

    if(dd<10) {
        dd = '0'+dd
    } 

    if(mm<10) {
        mm = '0'+mm
    } 
    // Use any date format you like, I have used YYYY-MM-DD
    return `${yyyy}-${mm}-${dd}`;
}
getDate(1555477200000);
// -> 2019-04-17

Alternatively, you can also do:

const time = new Date(1555477200000); 
// ->  Wed Apr 17 2019 10:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
const date = time.toDateString();
// -> Wed Apr 17 2019

P.S: I have used ES6 here. If you are working on ES5, use babel's online transpiler to convert.

Link: https://babeljs.io/repl

Answer 3

Simply use moment.js and use your required format

date = moment();
console.log(date.format("MMMM D, YYYY"));

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.1/moment.js"></script>

Answer 4

You can do

var time= timeStampFromFirestore.toDate(); 
console.log(time); 
console.log(time.toDateString());

See the full documentation :

toDateString()

toDate()