How should I store the current date in firebase or any database? this is my current approach

Please review

https://pastebin.com/XVtfTcC2

new Date().toISOString()

Timezone safe and simple

@ScriptCoded well that worked pretty well! thanks

@nothappy https://developer.mozilla.org/de/...

Please understand what this does.

Database should be agnostic, hence toISOString is right _as it stores UTC_.

Avoid storing non UTC / timezoned data. Some db's offer the possibiliy to store timezone data, but you'll might run into non fun soon. Daylight savings and stuff like that make it hard. Database UTC, rest handled in software.

@IntrusionCM The EU removing daylight saving time will be sooo nice 🤗

@ScriptCoded Now let's hope they don't go for eternal summer time, because they're "happy people"

Date.now() is my favorite bc it makes comparing records a lot easier. If your looking to display a shit ton of records in a table or something, I’d use the string maybe then.

@phat-lasagna All hail UTC milliseconds

Nothing existed until the epoch