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

when you set mongoose type as "Date" , mongoose convert timestamp to UTC, because timestamp is a number, not a Date. then if you want to store timestamp, you should set mongoose type as "Number".

myfield{
    type: Number,
    default: Date.now()
}