Hi, may I ask how I should deal with Date Serialization in Ktor? Is there an equivalent "LocalDate" ...

# multiplatform

[Archie]

Hi, may I ask how I should deal with Date Serialization in Ktor? Is there an equivalent "LocalDate" or "LocalDateTime" in KMP? If not, how do you guys deal with date?

[dambakk]

I am also interested in this question. Currently we expose the timestamp as long and let the clients convert it to platform specific date types

[dambakk]

Oh, wait, you asked about Date serialization 😓 I have no input on that, other than that there exists no Date class in KMP - yet (it is in progress)

[Archie]

hm.. how do you do it though? Do you simple use String instead for Dates?

[dambakk]

No, inside the KMP module I use Klock

[Marc Knaup]

I’ve started working on https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-time

It only has a subset of java.time functionality, is mostly a wrapper, needs some API cleanup and supports only Java and iOS so far.
Contributions welcome 😄

Example: https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-time/blob/master/sources/common/LocalDateTime.kt

[Archie]

Thanks guys.. gonna check on both of those libraries... ❤️

[russhwolf]

There’s also https://github.com/erikc5000/island-time

[russhwolf]

Or you could just use strings (ISO-8601 format is probably best) in your shared code and translate them via platform-specific APIs at the UI layer