How to store Date and Time in Meteor for range queries?

Question

My app needs to create objects that will have a startDate shown in 3 different timezones in browser. The date must also include the exact time. The date should be stored in

Answer 1

Everything you need to know about this can be found here. The highlights:

• Store dates as JavaScript Date objects. They have all the query advantages of integer timestamps, but you don't need to convert them back to Date objects to use them.

• Range queries work like so: Posts.find({creation_date: {$gte: startDate, $lt: endDate}})

• You should either have the server do the inserts or use the timesync package to prevent clock skew problems.

• You can use moment-timezone to format you dates to different timezones. e.g. moment(date).tz("America/New_York").format('l LT')