Best way to store date/time in mongodb

Question

I've seen using strings, integer timestamps and mongo datetime objects.

Answer 1

The best way to store date/time in MongoDB which is also native JavaScript Date objects, which map onto BSON native Date objects.

> db.test.insert({date: ISODate()}) 

> db.test.insert({date: new Date()}) 

> db.test.find() 

{ "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "date" : ISODate("2014-02-10T10:50:42.389Z") } 

{ "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "date" : ISODate("2014-02-10T10:50:57.240Z") }