Dates in database
question, how do I tell the database that I'm setting a value as a Date instead of a number?
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The direct answer is "you can't", you'll have to know how to handle the string or numerical field in your code (which shouldn't be a problem, the main challenge is deciding what kind of dates you want to work with, as per the docs).
so yep, I followed that, but I'm very interested to know how do I show it in the tables like the expiration date for instance?
Ah, the dashboard does this automatically if it finds a column with
number values that are all in a reasonable UTC milliseconds range. In JS you can get such a value with Date.now().
(it should be explained if you hover the (?) next to the column name)fair enough
yep
Thanks!