mongodb: extract timestamp from ObjectID in json query
I want to extract the timestamp from my ObjectID with a json query, as I would like to use mongodump but only dump data between certain dates. I dont wanna put my timestamps somewhere else than the ObjectID as I need the database to be as small as possible. Is there a way to to exstract the timestamp from ObjectID with a simple json query that mongodump accepts? You can do this fairly simply, at doc page Mongo Extended JSON (which is quite well hidden) you can find a table describing how to represent mongo extended datatypes in JSON. As you probably know, the first 4 bytes of ObjectId