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Service: documentdb · 2026-03-31 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/dateToString.md

Summary

Added comprehensive documentation for the $dateToString aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB, including parameters, examples in MongoDB Shell, and code examples in Node.js and Python

Security assessment

This change adds standard documentation for a date formatting operator with no mention of security vulnerabilities, patches, or security-related features. The examples show standard database operations without security context. The code examples include TLS connection parameters (tls=true, tlsCAFile) which are standard secure connection practices, not new security documentation.

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+Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
+
+# $dateToString
+
+The `$dateToString` aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to convert a date or timestamp value to a string representation. This is useful when you need to format the date and time in a specific way for display or further processing.
+
+**Parameters**
+
+  * `date`: The date or timestamp value to be converted to a string.
+
+  * `format`: A string that specifies the format in which the date should be represented. The format string can include various format specifiers, such as `%Y` for the four-digit year, `%m` for the two-digit month, `%d` for the two-digit day of the month, etc.
+
+  * `timezone`: (optional) The time zone to use for the conversion. If not specified, the time zone of the server hosting the Amazon DocumentDB cluster is used.
+
+  * `onNull`: (optional) The value to be returned if the `date` parameter is `null`.
+
+
+
+
+## Example (MongoDB Shell)
+
+The following example demonstrates the usage of the `$dateToString` operator to format the `logDate` field of the `missionLog` collection.
+
+**Create sample documents**
+    
+    
+    db.missionLog.insertMany([
+      { _id: 1, "event":"missionStart", logDate: new Date("2020-03-15T13:41:33Z") },
+      { _id: 2, "event":"jumpPoint1", logDate: new Date("2020-03-15T13:45:34Z") },
+      { _id: 3, "event":"jumpPoint2", logDate: new Date("2020-03-15T13:48:21Z") },
+      { _id: 4, "event":"jumpPoint3", logDate: new Date("2020-03-15T13:52:09Z") },
+      { _id: 5, "event":"missionEnd", logDate: new Date("2020-03-15T13:58:44Z") }
+    ]);
+
+**Query example**
+    
+    
+    db.missionLog.aggregate([
+      {
+        $project: {
+          event: "$event",
+          logDateFormatted: {
+            $dateToString: {
+              format: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
+              date: "$logDate"
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    ])
+
+**Output**
+    
+    
+    [
+      {
+        "_id": 1,
+        "event": "missionStart",
+        "logDateFormatted": "2020-03-15 13:41:33"
+      },
+      {
+        "_id": 2,
+        "event": "jumpPoint1",
+        "logDateFormatted": "2020-03-15 13:45:34"
+      },
+      {
+        "_id": 3,
+        "event": "jumpPoint2",
+        "logDateFormatted": "2020-03-15 13:48:21"
+      },
+      {
+        "_id": 4,
+        "event": "jumpPoint3",
+        "logDateFormatted": "2020-03-15 13:52:09"
+      },
+      {
+        "_id": 5,
+        "event": "missionEnd",
+        "logDateFormatted": "2020-03-15 13:58:44"
+      }
+    ]
+
+## Code examples
+
+To view a code example for using the `$dateToString` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
+
+Node.js
+    
+
+Here's an example of using the `$dateToString` operator in a Node.js application:
+    
+    
+    const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
+    
+    async function example() {
+      const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
+      const db = client.db('test');
+      const collection = db.collection('missionLog');
+    
+      const result = await collection.aggregate([
+        {
+          $project: {
+            event: "$event",
+            logDateFormatted: {
+              $dateToString: {
+                format: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
+                date: "$logDate"
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]).toArray();
+    
+      console.log(result);
+      await client.close();
+    }
+    
+    example();
+
+Python
+    
+
+Here's an example of using the `$dateToString` operator in a Python application:
+    
+    
+    from pymongo import MongoClient
+    
+    def example():
+        client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
+        db = client['test']
+        collection = db['missionLog']
+    
+        pipeline = [
+            {
+                '$project': {
+                    'event': '$event',
+                    'logDateFormatted': {
+                        '$dateToString': {
+                            'format': '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
+                            'date': '$logDate'
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        ]
+    
+        result = list(collection.aggregate(pipeline))
+        print(result)
+        client.close()
+    
+    example()
+
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+
+$dateSubtract
+
+$dateTrunc
+
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