How to save date in Angular as a timestamp to Firestore

[Suresh Kumar]

Plugin(s)

• Analytics
• App
• App Check
• Authentication
• Crashlytics
• Cloud Firestore
• Cloud Messaging
• Cloud Storage
• Performance
• Remote Config

Version

5.4.0

Platform(s)

• Android
• iOS
• Web

Current behavior

createdOn= new Date();
// gives such result in firestore with string type
// createdOn: "2018-11-16T09:48:51.137Z"

Expected behavior

what is the best way to save date as a timestamp
createdOn

Reproduction

https://github.com/capawesome-team/capacitor-firebase/tree/main/packages/firestore

Steps to reproduce

import { FirebaseFirestore } from '@capacitor-firebase/firestore';
this.logDataGlobal.createdOn = Date.now();
this.logDataGlobal.uuid = deviceId.identifier;
this.logDataGlobal.username = localStorage.getItem('username');
this.logDataGlobal.activestatus = true;

addFirebase(logDatas): void {
FirebaseFirestore.addDocument({
reference: 'mlogs',
data: logDatas,
});
}

Other information

No response

Capacitor doctor

ionic cap build android

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[Robin Genz]

This is currently a bug in Capacitor (see ionic-team/capacitor#7252). I close this as duplicate of #474.