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Andreas Bergström
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Convert string dates to Date-type in MongoDB

If you ever run into MongoDB-collections with documents having date fields that are of type String instead of Date, just use this query:

db.collection.updateMany( {created: {$type: ”string”}}, [{ $set: { created: { $toDate: ”$created” }}}] )

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