Converting string to date in mongodb

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Is there a way to convert string to date using custom format using mongodb shell  I am trying to convert  21 May 2012 16 35 33 -0400  to date   Is there a way to pass DateFormatter or something to  Date parse      or ISODate       method

User · Answer

How about using a library like momentjs by writing a script like this:

[install_moment.js]
function get_moment(){
    // shim to get UMD module to load as CommonJS
    var module = {exports:{}};

    /* 
    copy your favorite UMD module (i.e. moment.js) here
    */

    return module.exports
}
//load the module generator into the stored procedures: 
db.system.js.save( {
        _id:"get_moment",
        value: get_moment,
    });

Then load the script at the command line like so:

> mongo install_moment.js

Finally, in your next mongo session, use it like so:

// LOAD STORED PROCEDURES
db.loadServerScripts();

// GET THE MOMENT MODULE
var moment = get_moment();

// parse a date-time string
var a = moment("23 Feb 1997 at 3:23 pm","DD MMM YYYY [at] hh:mm a");

// reformat the string as you wish:
a.format("[The] DDD['th day of] YYYY"): //"The 54'th day of 1997"

User · Answer

You can use the javascript in the second link provided by Ravi Khakhkhar or you are going to have to perform some string manipulation to convert your orginal string  as some of the special characters in your original format aren t being recognised as valid delimeters  but once you do that  you can use  new    training PRIMARY gt  Date   Fri Jun 08 2012 13 53 03 GMT 0100  IST  training PRIMARY gt  new Date   ISODate  2012-06-08T12 53 06 831Z    training PRIMARY gt  var start   new Date  21 May 2012 16 35 33 -0400            gt  doesn t work training PRIMARY gt  start ISODate  0NaN-NaN-NaNTNaN NaN NaNZ    training PRIMARY gt  var start   new Date  21 May 2012 16 35 33 -0400            gt  doesn t work     training PRIMARY gt  start ISODate  0NaN-NaN-NaNTNaN NaN NaNZ    training PRIMARY gt  var start   new Date  21 May 2012 16 35 33 -0400            gt  works training PRIMARY gt  start ISODate  2012-05-21T20 35 33Z     Here s some links that you may find useful  regarding modification of the data within the mongo shell  -    http   cookbook mongodb org patterns date range   http   www mongodb org display DOCS Dates  http   www mongodb org display DOCS Overview - The MongoDB Interactive Shell

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Using MongoDB 4 0 and newer  The  toDate operator will convert the value to a date  If the value cannot be converted to a date   toDate errors  If the value is null or missing   toDate returns null   You can use it within an aggregate pipeline as follows   db collection aggregate           addFields              created at                   toDate     created at                         The above is equivalent to using the  convert operator as follows   db collection aggregate           addFields              created at                    convert                       input     created at                     to    date                                           Using MongoDB 3 6 and newer  You cab also use the  dateFromString operator which converts the date time string to a date object and has options for specifying the date format as well as the timezone   db collection aggregate           addFields              created at                    dateFromString                       dateString     created at                    format     m- d- Y      lt -- option available only in version 4 0  and newer                                            Using MongoDB versions  gt   2 6 and  lt  3 2  If MongoDB version does not have the native operators that do the conversion  you would need to manually iterate the cursor returned by the find   method by either using the forEach   method or the cursor method next   to access the documents  Withing the loop  convert the field to an ISODate object and then update the field using the  set operator  as in the following example where the field is called created at and currently holds the date in string format   var cursor   db collection find   created at      exists   true    type   2       while  cursor hasNext           var doc   cursor next         db collection update             id    doc  id               set      created at    new ISODate doc created at                For improved performance especially when dealing with large collections  take advantage of using the Bulk API for bulk updates as you will be sending the operations to the server in batches of say 1000 which gives you a better performance as you are not sending every request to the server  just once in every 1000 requests     The following demonstrates this approach  the first example uses the Bulk API available in MongoDB versions  gt   2 6 and  lt  3 2  It updates all the documents in the collection by changing the created at fields to date fields   var bulk   db collection initializeUnorderedBulkOp        counter   0   db collection find   created at      exists   true    type   2     forEach function  doc        var newDate   new ISODate doc created at       bulk find     id   doc  id    updateOne              set      created at   newDate               counter        if  counter   1000    0            bulk execute       Execute per 1000 operations and re-initialize every 1000 update statements         bulk   db collection initializeUnorderedBulkOp                Clean up remaining operations in queue if  counter   1000    0    bulk execute          Using MongoDB 3 2  The next example applies to the new MongoDB version 3 2 which has since deprecated the Bulk API and provided a newer set of apis using bulkWrite     var bulkOps           cursor   db collection find   created at      exists   true    type   2       cursor forEach function  doc         var newDate   new ISODate doc created at       bulkOps push                                   updateOne                       filter       id   doc  id                                    update       set      created at   newDate                                                              if  bulkOps length     500            db collection bulkWrite bulkOps           bulkOps                       if  bulkOps length  gt  0  db collection bulkWrite bulkOps

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In my case I have succeed with the following solution for converting field ClockInTime from ClockTime collection from string to Date type   db ClockTime find   forEach function doc         doc ClockInTime new Date doc ClockInTime       db ClockTime save doc

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I had some strings in the MongoDB Stored wich had to be reformated to a proper and valid dateTime field in the mongodb   here is my code for the special date format   2014-03-12T09 14 19 5303017 01 00   but you can easyly take this idea and write your own regex to parse the date formats      format   2014-03-12T09 14 19 5303017 01 00  var myregexp          -    -    T                        -          db Product find   forEach function doc        var matches   myregexp exec doc metadata insertTime       if myregexp test doc metadata insertTime            var offset   matches 9     matches 8           1   -1          var hours   matches 4 - -offset  1        var date   new Date matches 1   matches 2 -1  matches 3  hours  matches 5   matches 6   matches 7    10000 0         db Product update   id   doc  id     set     metadata insertTime    date           print  succsessfully updated          else           print  not updated

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