MongoDB/Mongoose querying at a specific date?

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Is it possible to query for a specific date ?

I found in the mongo Cookbook that we can do it for a range Querying for a Date Range Like that :

db.posts.find({"created_on": {"$gte": start, "$lt": end}})

But is it possible for a specific date ? This doesn't work :

db.posts.find({"created_on": new Date(2012, 7, 14) })

score 265 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 23 '20 at 14:03

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That should work if the dates you saved in the DB are without time (just year, month, day).

Chances are that the dates you saved were new Date(), which includes the time components. To query those times you need to create a date range that includes all moments in a day.

db.posts.find({ //query today up to tonight
    created_on: {
        $gte: new Date(2012, 7, 14), 
        $lt: new Date(2012, 7, 15)
    }
})

edited Dec 23 '20 at 14:03

Akash Kumar Verma

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answered Aug 15 '12 at 16:40

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Remember that that in the Date() function, the month argument starts counting at 0, not 1. On the other hand, the days start counting at 1... [details](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date) – Mark Stosberg Jan 18 '14 at 00:09
isnt it better to do _ 1 day to get next date rather than hard code both of them? – raju Jan 16 '15 at 14:03
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Is this method works fine if the date is stored like this:>>"date" : ISODate("2016-01-04T14:07:17.496Z") – santhosh Jan 15 '16 at 18:30
Don't you have your months and date switches. Dates format should be: yyyy, dd, MM – thethakuri Jun 02 '16 at 12:18
@thethakuri https://stackoverflow.com/users/2529191/thethakuri When are they ever in yyyy, dd, MM order? Show where that is documented. – Poikilos Dec 13 '20 at 22:55

Pier-Luc Gendreau · Answer 2 · 2020-05-13T18:53:52.007

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...5+ years later, I strongly suggest using date-fns instead

import endOfDayfrom 'date-fns/endOfDay'
import startOfDay from 'date-fns/startOfDay'

MyModel.find({
  createdAt: {
    $gte: startOfDay(new Date()),
    $lte: endOfDay(new Date())
  }
})

For those of us using Moment.js

const moment = require('moment')

const today = moment().startOf('day')

MyModel.find({
  createdAt: {
    $gte: today.toDate(),
    $lte: moment(today).endOf('day').toDate()
  }
})

Important: all moments are mutable!

tomorrow = today.add(1, 'days') does not work since it also mutates today. Calling moment(today) solves that problem by implicitly cloning today.

edited May 13 '20 at 18:53

answered Dec 24 '14 at 18:40

Pier-Luc Gendreau

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I suggest using `.startOf('day')` instead of .hours(0).minutes(0).seconds(0). So the first line would be: `var today = moment().startOf('day')` – Jim Geurts Jan 08 '15 at 23:44
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If we're using `moment(today)` to clone the object, another solution is: `var tomorrow = today.clone().add(1, 'days')` – johntellsall Sep 27 '17 at 18:48
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@johntellsall Explicit cloning rather than implicit, same result but perhaps easier to read indeed! – Pier-Luc Gendreau Nov 17 '17 at 13:00
How to do this in Nodejs? – TB.M Dec 18 '17 at 13:06
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Alternatively, I could suggest the following for `$lt` : `moment(today).endOf('day')`. To prevent actual results from the next day being included. – greduan Jun 11 '18 at 15:10
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for me `moment(today).endOf('day')` gives the same day with the time of: `23:59:59.999`. So actually looks more correct to use `$lte`, otherwise objects at that particular time will be ignored. – leonprou Dec 11 '18 at 11:47
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Thanks! You convinced me to add date-fns as a dependency! – Samuel Rowe Sep 04 '20 at 14:57
Clean solution, but I think it is a little bit overkilled to add a 5.5Mb dependency for that – deb Apr 02 '21 at 16:42

Faisal Hasnain · Answer 3 · 2014-01-06T16:12:43.673

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Yeah, Date object complects date and time, so comparing it with just date value does not work.

You can simply use the $where operator to express more complex condition with Javascript boolean expression :)

db.posts.find({ '$where': 'this.created_on.toJSON().slice(0, 10) == "2012-07-14"' })

created_on is the datetime field and 2012-07-14 is the specified date.

Date should be exactly in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Note: Use $where sparingly, it has performance implications.

edited Jan 06 '14 at 16:12

answered Jan 03 '14 at 19:26

Faisal Hasnain

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I have used your answer it gives the error **$where not allowed in this atlas tier** how can solve it? – Ravindra S. Patil Jun 30 '21 at 04:54

score 10 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Have you tried:

db.posts.find({"created_on": {"$gte": new Date(2012, 7, 14), "$lt": new Date(2012, 7, 15)}})

The problem you're going to run into is that dates are stored as timestamps in Mongo. So, to match a date you're asking it to match a timestamp. In your case I think you're trying to match a day (ie. from 00:00 to 23:59 on a specific date). If your dates are stored without times then you should be okay. Otherwise, try specifying your date as a range of time on the same day (ie. start=00:00, end=23:59) if gte doesn't work.

similar question

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Aug 15 '12 at 16:48

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This will include all elements younger than the specified date, which is probably not what OP wanted. Consider adding a "lt" option like the other answers. – BenSower May 02 '16 at 10:48
I think if you have `$gte` instead of `gte` it would be better. – jack blank Nov 29 '16 at 23:14
This has already been answered more correctly above, but it was bugging me knowing that my answer was off, so I updated it to be correct for the question. Hey, it's been 4 years. lol – Michael D Johnson Dec 08 '16 at 22:38
@MichaelDJohnson it will not work for the problem stated above, we need to make proper timestamp otherwise the result will not be according to expectations. – user1994 Apr 06 '21 at 11:55

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 14 '15 at 21:57

You can use following approach for API method to get results from specific day:

# [HTTP GET]
getMeals: (req, res) ->
  options = {}
  # eg. api/v1/meals?date=Tue+Jan+13+2015+00%3A00%3A00+GMT%2B0100+(CET)
  if req.query.date?
    date = new Date req.query.date
    date.setHours 0, 0, 0, 0
    endDate = new Date date
    endDate.setHours 23, 59, 59, 59
    options.date =
      $lt: endDate
      $gte: date

  Meal.find options, (err, meals) ->
      if err or not meals
        handleError err, meals, res
      else
        res.json createJSON meals, null, 'meals'

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 21 '21 at 17:19

i do it in this method and works fine

  public async getDatabaseorderbyDate(req: Request, res: Response) {
    const { dateQuery }: any = req.query
    const date = new Date(dateQuery)
    console.log(date)
    const today = date.toLocaleDateString(`fr-CA`).split('/').join('-')
    console.log(today)
    const creationDate = {
      "creationDate": {
        '$gte': `${today}T00:00:00.000Z`,
        '$lt': `${today}T23:59:59.999Z`
      }
    };

`
``

Bhagat Gurung · Answer 7 · 2021-10-02T06:26:13.703

Problem I came into was filtering date in backend, when setting date to 0 hour, 0 minute, 0 second, 0 milisecond in node server it does in ISO time so current date 0 hour, 0 minute, 0 second, 0 milisecond of client may vary i.e. as a result which may gives a day after or before due to conversion of ISO time to local timezone

I fixed those by sending local time from client to server

 // If client is from Asia/Kathmandu timezone it will zero time in that zone.
// Note ISODate time with zero time is not equal to above mention
const timeFromClient = new Date(new Date().setHours(0,0,0,0)).getTime()

And used this time to filter the documents by using this query

const getDateQuery = (filterBy, time) => {
    const today = new Date(time);
    const tomorrow = new Date(today.getDate() + 1);

    switch(filterBy) {
        case 'past':
            return {
                $exists: true,
                $lt: today,
            };
        case 'present': 
            return {
                $exists: true,
                $gte: today,
                $lt: tomorrow
            };
        case 'future':
            return {
                $exists: true,
                $gte: tomorrow
            };
        default: 
            return {
                $exists: true
            };
    };
};
const users = await UserModel.find({
    expiryDate: getDateQuery('past', timeFromClient)
})

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered May 23 '13 at 08:50

We had an issue relating to duplicated data in our database, with a date field having multiple values where we were meant to have 1. I thought I'd add the way we resolved the issue for reference.

We have a collection called "data" with a numeric "value" field and a date "date" field. We had a process which we thought was idempotent, but ended up adding 2 x values per day on second run:

{ "_id" : "1", "type":"x", "value":1.23, date : ISODate("2013-05-21T08:00:00Z")}
{ "_id" : "2", "type":"x", "value":1.23, date : ISODate("2013-05-21T17:00:00Z")}

We only need 1 of the 2 records, so had to resort the javascript to clean up the db. Our initial approach was going to be to iterate through the results and remove any field with a time of between 6am and 11am (all duplicates were in the morning), but during implementation, made a change. Here's the script used to fix it:

var data = db.data.find({"type" : "x"})
var found = [];
while (data.hasNext()){
    var datum = data.next();
    var rdate = datum.date;
    // instead of the next set of conditions, we could have just used rdate.getHour() and checked if it was in the morning, but this approach was slightly better...
    if (typeof found[rdate.getDate()+"-"+rdate.getMonth() + "-" + rdate.getFullYear()] !== "undefined") {
       if (datum.value != found[rdate.getDate()+"-"+rdate.getMonth() + "-" + rdate.getFullYear()]) {
           print("DISCREPENCY!!!: " + datum._id + " for date " + datum.date);
       }
       else {
           print("Removing " + datum._id);
           db.data.remove({ "_id": datum._id});
       }
    }
    else {
       found[rdate.getDate()+"-"+rdate.getMonth() + "-" + rdate.getFullYear()] = datum.value;
    }
}

and then ran it with mongo thedatabase fixer_script.js

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 01 '21 at 15:28

Seemed like none of the answers worked for me. Although someone mentioned a little hint, I managed to make it work with this code below.

let endDate = startingDate
endDate = endDate + 'T23:59:59';

Model.find({dateCreated: {$gte: startingDate, $lte: endDate}})

startingDate will be the specific date you want to query with.

I preferred this solution to avoid installing moment and just to pass the startingDate like "2021-04-01" in postman.

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Apr 06 '21 at 11:51

Well a very simple solution to this is given below

const start = new Date(2020-04-01);
start.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
const end = new Date(2021-04-01);
end.setHours(23, 59, 59, 999);
queryFilter.created_at={
    $gte:start,
    $lte:end
}
YourModel.find(queryFilter)

So, the above code simply finds the records from the given start date to the given end date.

MongoDB/Mongoose querying at a specific date?

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...5+ years later, I strongly suggest using date-fns instead

For those of us using Moment.js

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