GPS Timestamp in Position

[gmcdowell]

🚀 Feature Requests

Would love to see the DateTimestamp included in the Position object to assist with determining age of record.

Contextualize the feature

GPS co-ordinates generally includes this value, and hence we believe it is relevant and useful.

Describe the feature

Hopefully it is a matter of including it when the 'position' object is created as part of the call to the device to generate the 'current location'

Platforms affected (mark all that apply)

• 📱 iOS
• 🤖 Android

Nice plugin btw ;)

[mvanbeusekom]

Hi @gmcdowell, thank you very much for reporting this feature.

I have just release version 1.7.0 of the Geolocator plugin which now contains a timestamp as part of the Position class.

[gmcdowell]

Fantastic. Thx so much.

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[r3a1d3a1]

Just to be clear, is the timestamp obtained from the device, the internet, or from the satellites?

[mvanbeusekom]

@r3a1d3a1 on iOS and Android it is retrieved from the CLLocation or Location object returned by the platform.

On Linux the GeoClue library is used, if it returns a timestamp that is passed along otherwise the DateTime.now() is used.
On Windows we return the timestamp of the Location object returned by the winrt Windows.Devices.Geolocation library.
On Web the timestamp provided from the GeolocationPosition object is being returned.

[r3a1d3a1]

Thank you very much. As for Android, interpreting the doc was akin to a legal document!
I wasn't able to figure out if the time is from the satellites or the device. I'm guessing the latter, but care to decipher?