kotlin-multiplatform timestamp to time in milliseconds (unix time) - kotlin-multiplatform

I'm using kotlin-multiplatform for iOS and Android targets.
I'm deserializing json string with timestamp inside: 2020-01-16T11:33:34.553Z
I would like to convert this timestamp to time in milliseconds (unix time). Is it possible to do this using kotlin native libraries?
I'm using kotlin multiplatform 1.3.72.

Yes, you can do it with native kotlin libs like this:
timeValue.toInstant().epochSeconds
where toInstant() is a function in the kotlinx.datetime library.

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I'm doing some platform specific Flutter code where I have a platform method "stopRec" (stop recording) which awaits a byte array from the native host.
On the Dart side, it looks like this:
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recordedBytes = await platform.invokeMethod('stopRec');
As you can see it's expecting to get a byte array (Dart Uint8List) back.
I've written the Android code and it works -- it tests out fine, the recorded bytes come back through and playback correctly.
This is what the Android (Java) code looks like:
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result.success(soundBytes);
I hope you understand why "more code" is not yet necessary in this question.
Continuing, though, on the IOS side, I'm getting the following error when calling the platform method:
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The Dart line where the error occurs is:
recordedBytes = await platform.invokeMethod('stopRec');
So what is happening is that it's not getting a the Dart Uint8List it expects sent back from IOS.
The IOS code looks like this:
var dartCompatibleAudioBytes:[UInt8]?
var audioBytesAsDataFromRecorder: Data?
// ..... platform channel section
case "stopRec":
self?.stopRec()
result(self?.dartCompatibleAudioBytes!) // <---- wrong data type getting sent back here
break
// ..... platform channel section
private func stopRec() {
myRecorder.stopRecording()
audioBytesAsDataFromRecorder = myRecorder.getRecordedAudioFileBytesAsData()
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}
I have tested the same IOS implementation code as a stand-alone IOS app that is not connected to Flutter, so I know that at the end of the the stopRec() method, the dartCompatibleAudioBytes variable does contain the expected data which plays back properly.
I hope you can see why "more code" is still not necessary.
The Dart code works
The Android code Works
The Dart code works together with the Android Code
The IOS code works
The IOS code does NOT work together with the Dart code
Using what I've shown, can anyone see immediately why the expected data type is not making its way back through the method channel?
According to the documentation, you should be using FlutterStandardTypedData(bytes: Data) in swift in order for it to be deserialized as Uint8List in dart.

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return validate(ValidatorRegex.EMAIL)
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But in iOS using Swift, I need to call it as a static method of another class:
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...
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I just run through all target settings and didn't find nothing that could be changed.
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str.characters.count
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