MongoDb: Convert date string to specific format in mongodb 3.6

Question

I need to parse date value to specific format without using format field in dateFromString operator.

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Current situation : in Mongodb 4.0 if I f

Answer 1

I think following query will solve your problem because MongoDB 3.6 supports dateFromString

Input:

[
  {
    "dateS": "2020-01-16T08"
  }
]

Query:

db.collection.aggregate([
  {
    "$project": {
      "year": {"$substr": ["$dateS",0,4]},
      "month": {"$substr": ["$dateS",5,2]},
      "day": {"$substr": ["$dateS",8,2]},
      "hour": {"$substr": ["$dateS",11,2]}
    }
  },
  {
    $addFields: {
      "isoString": {
        "$concat": ["$year","-","$month","-","$day","T","$hour",":00:00Z"]
      }
    }
  },
  {
    $addFields: {
      "newDate": {
        $dateFromString: {"dateString": "$isoString"}
      }
    }
  }
])

Output:

[
  {
    "_id": ObjectId("5a934e000102030405000000"),
    "day": "16",
    "hour": "08",
    "isoString": "2020-01-16T08:00:00Z",
    "month": "01",
    "newDate": ISODate("2020-01-16T08:00:00Z"),
    "year": "2020"
  }
]