Retrieving Dates in MongoJS

Question

Retrieving Dates in MongoJS

I'm trying to store and retrieve a date in mongojs. Here's how it's saved:

var game = { startedOn: new Date() };
db.games.save(game);

When I fetch it, the date is not a date anymore. It's some kind of wrapper around a date. The _d field seems to be a date, but it's weird that I should have to access it that way.

db.games.find(function(err, games){
    console.log(game[0].startedOn);
});

This logs:

{ _useUTC: true,
  _isUTC: true,
  _l: null,
  _i: null,
  _f: null,
  _d: Sun Jun 09 2013 21:49:26 GMT-0500 (CDT) }

What's the right way to store/retrieve a date in mongo-js?

javascript
node.js
mongodb
date
mongojs

Answer 1

DateTime and Date values should be converted to UTC Time before storing them in MongoDB

The method you have above works fine in nodejs.

Here is how you retrieve it:

new Date(parseInt(this.toString().slice(0,8), 16)*1000);

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