Store createdAt and updateAt as Unix timestamps?

Hello. I want to propose this feature. I’ve read docs and wasn’t able to find how to do this. At my company, we store all dates as unix timestamps, which is very useful.

What do you think? I cat implement this and open a pull request.

I think we can extend timestamps to:

var thingSchema = new Schema(
  {..},
  {
    timestamps: {
      createdAt: 'created_at',
      fieldType: Number,
      dateFunc: function () {
        return Math.round(new Date().getTime()/1000); /* timestamp in seconds */
      }
    }
  }
);

where: fieldType - type of the timestamps’ fields dateFunc - custom function to create date (we store dates in seconds, but new Date().getTime() returns milliseconds)

[vkarpov15]

@SwapnilSoni1999 not currently.

[vkarpov15]

@SwapnilSoni1999 yep it is released in 5.9.0, see timestamps docs for an example.