Format date in mongodb query output on shell

Question

I want to format the date time into an specific format on the mongo shell output

My query

db.getCollection(\'people\').find({
        date: { 
               


        

Answer 1

Solution is using aggregation pipeline as stated by Veeram in comments section

db.getCollection('people').aggregate([
    {
        $project:{
            datetime: {$dateToString: {format: "%G-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",date: "$datetime"}},
            age : 1
        }
    }
]);