Converting a mongo stored date back into milliseconds since Unix epoch when loaded?

Question

I am using Mongoose & Node.js for my webserver.

As a part of one of my document schemas, I have a \'timestamp\' field. The line for it in the schema is:

Answer 1

var schema = new Schema({
  timestamp: {type:Number, default: new Date().getTime()}
});

Hope this will solve your issue.