How can I manipulate a date field in an aggregation pipeline?

Question

I\'m trying to set the time from a Date field to the start of the day

function getDate(date){ return new Date(date.getYear(), date.getMonth(), 
date.getDate(), 0         


        

Answer 1

MongoDB's aggregation pipeline does not support JavaScript. To manipulate date values for results in the aggregation pipeline you need to use Date Aggregation Operators.

For example :

db.date.aggregate([
    { $project: {
         _id: { $dateToString: { format: "%Y%m%d", date: "$dt" }}
    }}
])

Assuming you have a document with a field called dt with a date value of ISODate("2017-07-01T10:01:23.344Z"), the result would look like:

{
  "result": [

    {
      "_id": "20170701"
    }

  ],
  "ok": 1
}

Note: if you have multiple documents for the same day, this approach will create duplicate _id values in your results. You may want to project to a different field name or perhaps use a $group stage instead of $project if your intent is to combine values for the same day.