There are two different ways by which you can store date/time in MongoDB. In the first approach, you can use Date objects like JavaScript. The Date object is the best way to store date/time in MongoDB. The syntax is as follows:
new Date();
In the second approach, you can use ISODate(). The syntax is as follows:
new ISODate();
To understand the above syntax, let us create a collection with documents following the first approach. The query to create a collection with document is as follows:
The first approach:
> db.ProductsInformation.insertOne({"ProductId":"Product-1","ProductDeliveryDateTime":new Date()}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c6ec6786fd07954a4890686") }
The second approach:
> db.ProductsInformation.insertOne({"ProductId":"Product-2","ProductDeliveryDateTime":new ISODate()}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c6ec6846fd07954a4890687") }
Display all documents from the collection with the help of find() method. The query is as follows:
> db.ProductsInformation.find().pretty();
The following is the output:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c6ec6786fd07954a4890686"), "ProductId" : "Product-1", "ProductDeliveryDateTime" : ISODate("2019-02-21T15:40:40.901Z") } { "_id" : ObjectId("5c6ec6846fd07954a4890687"), "ProductId" : "Product-2", "ProductDeliveryDateTime" : ISODate("2019-02-21T15:40:52.684Z") }
Note: The best way to store date/time objects is with Date object.