Create an ISO date object in javascript

javascript node.js mongodb coffeescript
Joel James picture Joel James · Mar 6, 2013 · Viewed 115.8k times · Source

I have a mongo database set up. creating a new date object in mongoDb create a date object in ISO format eg: ISODate("2012-07-14T00:00:00Z")

I am using node.js to connect to mongo database and query the database. when ever I create a new date object (new Date()) in javascript its creates a javascript date object eg: Wed Mar 06 2013 14:49:51 GMT-0600 (CST)

Is there a way to create an ISO date object in javascript so that I can send the object directly to the mongoDb and perform date query

I am able to perform the below query in mongoDb

db.schedule_collection.find({
  start_date: { '$gte': new Date(2012, 01, 03, 8, 30) }
})

but cannot perform when I send in an javascript date object from node

The mongodb cookbook provides an python example to query the mongo database using datetime module, but does not provide any example use javascript.

Any help is appreciated. Thanking you in advance

Answer

Mathletics picture Mathletics · Mar 6, 2013

Try using the ISO string

var isodate = new Date().toISOString()

See also: method definition at MDN.

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