$dateToString (aggregation)
Definition
Compatibility
You can use $dateToString
for deployments hosted in the following
environments:
MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud
MongoDB Enterprise: The subscription-based, self-managed version of MongoDB
MongoDB Community: The source-available, free-to-use, and self-managed version of MongoDB
Syntax
The $dateToString
expression has the following
operator expression syntax:
{ $dateToString: { date: <dateExpression>, format: <formatString>, timezone: <tzExpression>, onNull: <expression> } }
The $dateToString
takes a document with the following fields:
Field | Description | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
date | Changed in version 3.6. The date to convert to string. | ||||||||||||
format | Optional. The date format specification. If unspecified, | ||||||||||||
timezone |
NoteEtc/ Timezones
| ||||||||||||
onNull | Optional. The value to return if the If unspecified, |
Format Specifiers
The following format specifiers are available for use in the
<formatString>
:
Specifiers | Description | Possible Values |
---|---|---|
%d | Day of Month (2 digits, zero padded) | 01 -31 |
%G | Year in ISO 8601 format New in version 3.4. | 0000 -9999 |
%H | Hour (2 digits, zero padded, 24-hour clock) | 00 -23 |
%j | Day of year (3 digits, zero padded) | 001 -366 |
%L | Millisecond (3 digits, zero padded) | 000 -999 |
%m | Month (2 digits, zero padded) | 01 -12 |
%M | Minute (2 digits, zero padded) | 00 -59 |
%S | Second (2 digits, zero padded) | 00 -60 |
%w | Day of week (1-Sunday, 7-Saturday) | 1 -7 |
%u | Day of week number in ISO 8601 format (1-Monday, 7-Sunday) New in version 3.4. | 1 -7 |
%U | Week of year (2 digits, zero padded) | 00 -53 |
%V | Week of Year in ISO 8601 format New in version 3.4. | 01 -53 |
%Y | Year (4 digits, zero padded) | 0000 -9999 |
%z | The timezone offset from UTC. New in version 3.6. | +/-[hh][mm] |
%Z | The minutes offset from UTC as a number. For example, if the
timezone offset ( New in version 3.6. | +/-mmm |
%% | Percent Character as a Literal | % |
Example
Consider a sales
collection with the following document:
{ "_id" : 1, "item" : "abc", "price" : 10, "quantity" : 2, "date" : ISODate("2014-01-01T08:15:39.736Z") }
The following aggregation uses $dateToString
to
return the date
field as formatted strings:
db.sales.aggregate( [ { $project: { yearMonthDayUTC: { $dateToString: { format: "%Y-%m-%d", date: "$date" } }, timewithOffsetNY: { $dateToString: { format: "%H:%M:%S:%L%z", date: "$date", timezone: "America/New_York"} }, timewithOffset430: { $dateToString: { format: "%H:%M:%S:%L%z", date: "$date", timezone: "+04:30" } }, minutesOffsetNY: { $dateToString: { format: "%Z", date: "$date", timezone: "America/New_York" } }, minutesOffset430: { $dateToString: { format: "%Z", date: "$date", timezone: "+04:30" } } } } ] )
The operation returns the following result:
{ "_id" : 1, "yearMonthDayUTC" : "2014-01-01", "timewithOffsetNY" : "03:15:39:736-0500", "timewithOffset430" : "12:45:39:736+0430", "minutesOffsetNY" : "-300", "minutesOffset430" : "270" }