node.js - MongoDB + nodejs : how to query ISODate fields?

Question

I am using nodejs with the node-mongodb-native driver (http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/).

I have documents with a date property stored as ISODate type.

Through nodejs, I am using this query:

db.collection("log").find({
    localHitDate: { 
            '$gte': '2013-12-12T16:00:00.000Z',
            '$lt': '2013-12-12T18:00:00.000Z' 
    }
})

It returns nothing. To make it work I need to do the following instead:

db.collection("log").find({
    localHitDate: {
            '$gte': ISODate('2013-12-12T16:00:00.000Z'),
            '$lt': ISODate('2013-12-12T18:00:00.000Z')
    }
})

But ISODate is not recognized in my nodejs code.

So how can I make a query against mongo date fields through my nodejs program?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use new Date('2013-12-12T16:00:00.000Z') in node.js;

new is a must, because Date() is already use to return date string.

ISODate is concepted in mongodb, you can use it in mongodb console, but it can be different for different programming language.