MongoDB + Node.js: unable to insert date properly

Question

I′ve been using node-mongoskin to connect this two. Everything was ok until I queried some \"date\" field which I think should be returned as javascript′s Date

Answer 1

JavaScript code:

    collection.insert({"className"     : "models.Action", 
                       "title"         : "Email",
                       "description"   : "How are you today?",
                       "creationDate"  :  new Date("Fry, 4 May 2012 10:30:08 +0200 (CEST)"),
                       "creator"       : dbref },

produced in mongoDB

db.action.find({"title":"Email"})
> db.action.find({"title":"Email"})
{ "className" : "models.Action", "title" : "Email", "description" : "How are you today?", "creationDate" : ISODate("2012-05-04T08:30:08Z"), "creator" : { "$ref" : "person", "$id" : ObjectId("4f995e4824ac8d68f63adf69") }, "_id" : ObjectId("4fa79e2e92c2a19a09000002") }

Answer 2

ISODate is the native way for mongo to store date. I use node-mongodb-native npm module and I store/retrieve javascript Date using new Date() idiom like in your examples. I don't know if it's a recent correction because I started node and Mongo in 2012, but using date was pretty straightforward for me.

Answer 3

It was probably some bug in my code or the mongo driver. Now, the following works just fine:

db.collection.insert({d: new Date()});

Timestamps support described here: http://mongodb.github.com/node-mongodb-native/api-bson-generated/timestamp.html.