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Date And Timestamp Function In Mongodb

In this article, we will discuss the Date and Timestamp function in MongoDB.

Purpose

The Date function returns the current date and the Timestamp function returns the current time.

In the current example, we will insert the value of the current date and time in the collection.

db.DateTimeCollection.insertOne({
  Date: new Date(),
  Time: new Timestamp()
})

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This is how the value of the date and time field is displayed.

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You can also use the getTimestamp function to get the value of time.

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