Get Firebase server time

[Zac Masinelli]

Hello team!

I'm developing an Android app, and trying to get the current Firebase server time (as opposed to a device's time, which could be wrong).

Is there a way to get the Firebase time? I couldn't find anything in the new (Google) documentation; the old (legacy) documentation mentioned "ServerValue.TIMESTAMP", but I couldn't seem to get that working either - but I may have been doing something wrong (namely, I wasn't sure which key/value to get from the timestamp).

If not, is there a lightweight library which gets server time that I could use in a production app?

Thanks!

[Akshay Bora]

Hi,

You can use "ServerValue.TIMESTAMP" to get the current time in milliseconds from firebase server.

What problem you are facing in implementing this?

Regards,

Akshay

[Chris Raynor]

In the new SDKs it's under firebase.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firebase.database#.ServerValue

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[Michael Lehenbauer]

See here for the docs on dealing with latency and server time: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/web/offline-capabilities#section-latency

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[Joe White]

ServerValue

CONSTANT   STATIC

{TIMESTAMP: non-null Object}

A placeholder value for auto-populating the current timestamp (time since the Unix epoch, in milliseconds) as determined by the Firebase servers.