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How to insert date into a document

Lam Kok Weng

started a topic about 7 years ago

Hi guys,

How do I go about inserting and updating a document's field with the current time? Something like: {time:now()}.

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Tech Support said about 7 years ago

You can use new Date() to get the current date / time

var now = new Date();

You can then use this in your update document

{"time" : now}

Gabriel

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Felix Palabrica

said almost 6 years ago

Since no one answered this question and I have a feeling that someone will encounter this problem again, I'll post a working solution. Use the extended JSON of mongodb to specify the date data type.

{ logtime : {"$date" : "2016-07-11T03:54:59Z"} }

Hamlet Archer

said over 6 years ago

how does one insert a date into a meta collection?

i've tried on the NoSQL Explorer to insert the following:

{"date":new Date("2014-12-11T14:12:00Z")}

{"date":ISODate("2014-12-11T14:12:00Z")}

{"date":new ISODate("2014-12-11T14:12:00Z")}

and it always says "Error Parsing JSON".

Tech Support

said about 7 years ago

Answer

You can use new Date() to get the current date / time

var now = new Date();

You can then use this in your update document

{"time" : now}

Gabriel

Customer Support

said over 6 years ago

Just wish to note that we have taken this conversation to the ticket system with Hamlet.

Thanks.

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