[json] Date query with ISODate in mongodb doesn't seem to work

I don't seem to be able to get even the most basic date query to work in MongoDB. With a document that looks something like this:

{
    "_id" : "foobar/201310",
    "ap" : "foobar",
    "dt" : ISODate("2013-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"),
    "tl" : 375439
}

And a query that looks like this:

{ 
    "dt" : { 
        "$gte" : { 
            "$date" : "2013-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
        }
    }
}

I get 0 results from executing:

db.mycollection.find({
  "dt" : { "$gte" : { "$date" : "2013-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"}}
})

Any idea why this doesn't work?

For reference, this query is being produced by Spring's MongoTemplate so I don't have direct control over the query that is ultimately sent to MongoDB.

(P.S.)

> db.version()
2.4.7

Thanks!

In the MongoDB shell:

db.getCollection('sensorevents').find({from:{$gt: new ISODate('2015-08-30 16:50:24.481Z')}})

In my nodeJS code ( using Mongoose )

    SensorEvent.Model.find( {
        from: { $gt: new Date( SensorEventListener.lastSeenSensorFrom ) }
    } )

I am querying my sensor events collection to return values where the 'from' field is greater than the given date

Old question, but still first google hit, so i post it here so i find it again more easily...

Using Mongo 4.2 and an aggregate():

db.collection.aggregate(
    [
     { $match: { "end_time": { "$gt": ISODate("2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z")  } } },
     { $project: {
          "end_day": { $dateFromParts: { 'year' : {$year:"$end_time"}, 'month' : {$month:"$end_time"}, 'day': {$dayOfMonth:"$end_time"}, 'hour' : 0  } }
     }}, 
     {$group:{
        _id:   "$end_day",
        "count":{$sum:1},
    }}
   ]
)

This one give you the groupby variable as a date, sometimes better to hande as the components itself.

In json strict mode, you'll have to keep the order:

{
    "dt": {
        "$gte": {
            "$date": "2013-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
        }
    }
}

Only thing which worked to define my search queries on mlab.com.

I am using robomongo as the mongodb client gui and the below worked for me

db.collectionName.find({"columnWithDateTime" : {
$lt:new ISODate("2016-02-28T00:00:00.000Z")}})

On the app side I am using nodejs based driver mongodb(v1.4.3),the application uses datepicker in the ui which gives date like YYYY-mm-dd, this is then appended with default time like 00:00:00 and then given to the new Date() constructor and then supplied to the mongodb criteria object,I think the driver converts the date to ISO date and the query then works and gives desired output, however the same new Date() constructor does not work or show same output on robo mongo,for the same criteria,which is weird,since I used robomongo to cross check my criteria objects.

Whereas the default cli mongoshell works well with both ISODate and new Date()

This worked for me while searching for value less than or equal than now:

db.collectionName.find({ "dt": { "$lte" : new Date() + "" } });

this is my document

"_id" : ObjectId("590173023c488e9a48e903d6"),
    "updatedAt" : ISODate("2017-04-27T04:26:42.709Z"),
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2017-04-27T04:26:42.709Z"),
    "flightId" : "590170f97cb84116075e2680",

 "_id" : ObjectId("590173023c488e9a48e903d6"),
        "updatedAt" : ISODate("2017-04-28T03:26:42.609Z"),
        "createdAt" : ISODate("2017-04-28T03:26:42.609Z"),
        "flightId" : "590170f97cb84116075e2680",

now i want to find every 27th date document.so i used this....

 > db.users.find({createdAt:{"$gte":ISODate("2017-04-27T00:00:00Z"),"$lt":ISODate("2017-04-28T00:00:00Z") }}).count()

result:1

this worked for me.

Wrap it with new Date():

{ "dt" : { "$lt" : new Date("2012-01-01T15:00:00.000Z") } }

Try this:

{ "dt" : { "$gte" : ISODate("2013-10-01") } }

From the MongoDB cookbook page comments:

"dt" : 
{
    "$gte" : ISODate("2014-07-02T00:00:00Z"), 
    "$lt" : ISODate("2014-07-03T00:00:00Z") 
}

This worked for me. In full context, the following command gets every record where the dt date field has a date on 2013-10-01 (YYYY-MM-DD) Zulu:

db.mycollection.find({ "dt" : { "$gte" : ISODate("2013-10-01T00:00:00Z"), "$lt" : ISODate("2013-10-02T00:00:00Z") }})