I have a MongoDB whom store the date objects in UTC. Well, I want to perform aggregation by year,month day in a different timezone (CET).
doing this, works fine for UTC:
BasicDBObject group_id = new BasicDBObject("_id", new BasicDBObject("year", new BasicDBObject("$year", "$tDate")).
append("month", new BasicDBObject("$month", "$tDate")).
append("day", new BasicDBObject("$dayOfMonth", "$tDate")).
append("customer", "$customer"));
BasicDBObject groupFields = group_id.
append("eventCnt", new BasicDBObject("$sum", "$eventCnt"));
BasicDBObject group = new BasicDBObject("$group", groupFields);
or, if you use the command line (not tested, I only tested the java version):
{
$group: {
_id: {
"year": {
"$year", "$tDate"
},
"month": {
"$month", "$tDate"
},
"day": {
"$dayOfMonth", "$tDate"
},
"customer": "$customer"
},
"eventCount": {
"$sum": "$eventCount"
}
}
}
How do I convert these dates into CET inside the aggregation framework?
For example '2013-09-16 23:45:00 UTC' is '2013-09-17 00:45:00 CET', this is a different day.
I'm not an expert on CET and its relation to UTC, but the following code (for the shell) should do a proper conversion (adding an hour) to a MongoDB date type:
db.dates.aggregate(
{$project: {"tDate":{$add: ["$tDate", 60*60*1000]}, "eventCount":1, "customer":1}}
)
If you run that project command before the rest of your pipeline, the results should be in CET.