Find objects between two dates MongoDB

Question

I\'ve been playing around storing tweets inside mongodb, each object looks like this:

{
\"_id\" : ObjectId(\"4c02c58de500fe1be1000005\"),
\"contributors\" :          


        

Answer 1

Why not convert the string to an integer of the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS? Each increment of time would then create a larger integer, and you can filter on the integers instead of worrying about converting to ISO time.