How to convert from string to date data type?

Question

I am uploading data from a csv file to MongoDB. It is taking OrderDate

Answer 1

db.messages.find().forEach(function(doc) {
  doc.headers.datestamp = new Date(Date.parse(doc.headers.Date.toString())); 
  db.messages.save(doc);
  })

This worked well to convert this sort of text: Tue, 14 Nov 2007 03:22:00 -0800 (PST)

The text is from an email archive known as the Enron Corpus.