Why does Mongo store my date as a string?

Question

From Node.js I do

var startDate = new Date('2012-06-06');

Then I save it using mongodb native. It is stored as follows

'2012-06-05T14: 00: 00.000Z

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Hoa Jun 06 '12 at 4:27

3 answers

MongoDB stores dates in UTC, not as strings. Check BSON specifications.

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Andreas Jung Jun 06 '12 at 6:59

. ( , - ISO-.) .

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TheHippo 06 . '12 10:36

Tiago relvao · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-06T11:19:56+0000

What you see is a representation of the JSON date: new date ('2012-06-06'). toJSON ();