Hey all, Does anyone here use the `NSDate(timeInte...

# multiplatform

[Igor Dudenkov]

Hey all,
Does anyone here use the NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: ...) initializer in Kotlin to create a date object from a timestamp in seconds?

I'm working on iOS-specific code to return a formatted date string given a timestamp, but the available initializers seem limited.
Specifically, I can only use NSDate(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: ...) or NSDate(). However, I need to work with NSDate(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: ...) for my implementation.

What do you typically use to format dates across iOS and Android?

[Alexandru Caraus]

Use kotlinx.datetime lib?

[Julian Pellico]

The best path would be to use LocalDate / LocalDateTime from kotlinx.datetime, i.e. if you were starting a new app from scratch

[Julian Pellico]

In my app, I see that in one place, to format a LocalDate to String on iOS, I used toNSDateComponents(), got an NSDate from that, and passed that to stringFromDate of an NSDateFormatter. This was in an expect/actual function.