Dates and Mongoose

I am running into an interesting issue. I initially started diving into it here:

https://github.com/andrewplummer/Sugar/issues/78

But found out the vanilla JS produces the same issue. Whenever I store a date (no timestamp) and then I go to retrieve that date and format it, its a day behind. There is a simple example in the case, I can get you more info if you need. I’m central time. Here is a snippet of a stored doc in MongoDB that will be a date behind when I format it (e.g. getDate()).

{ "_id" : ObjectId("4eeb6c1822501a661600003b"), 
  "dateExample" : ISODate("2011-12-19T00:00:00Z")
}

Does mongoose store UTC dates to MongoDB or is there some other reason why this would be?

[vkarpov15]

No way to do that right now. In the past I’ve just stored dates as a string in ‘YYYYMMDD’ format (like ‘20160317’). This has the nice feature that you can still sort by date and use ordering operators like $gt.

[vkarpov15]

@nasr18 MyModel.find({ timestamp: { $gte: moment().subtract(7, 'days').toDate(), $lte: moment().toDate() } });

Or use https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongodb-moment to make the toDate() call unnecessary