$dateAdd

New from version 5.0

The $dateAdd aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB allows you to add a duration to a date and time value.

Parameters

• date: A date and time value to add a duration to.

• duration: The duration to add to the date value. This can be specified as an object with keys for years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

• timezone: (optional) The time zone to use when performing the date addition. If not specified, the default time zone of the Amazon DocumentDB cluster is used.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $dateAdd operator to add 2 days and 12 hours to a date.

Create sample documents

db.events.insertMany([
  { _id: 1, eventDate: ISODate("2023-04-01T10:00:00Z") },
  { _id: 2, eventDate: ISODate("2023-04-02T12:00:00Z") },
  { _id: 3, eventDate: ISODate("2023-04-03T14:00:00Z") }
]);

Query example

db.events.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      _id: 1,
      eventDate: 1,
      eventDatePlustwodaysandtwelvehours: {
        $dateAdd: {
          startDate: {
            $dateAdd: { 
              startDate: "$eventDate",
              unit: "day",
              amount: 2
            }
          },
          unit: "hour",
          amount: 12
        }
      }
    }
  }
])

Output

[
  {
    "_id": 1,
    "eventDate": "2023-04-01T10:00:00Z",
    "eventDatePlustwodaysandtwelvehours": ISODate("2023-04-03T22:00:00Z)"
  },
  {
    "_id": 2,
    "eventDate": "2023-04-02T12:00:00Z",
    "eventDatePlustwodaysandtwelvehours": ISODate("2023-04-05T00:00:00Z)"
  },
  {
    "_id": 3,
    "eventDate": "2023-04-03T14:00:00Z",
    "eventDatePlustwodaysandtwelvehours": ISODate("2023-04-06T02:00:00Z)"
  }
]

Code examples

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Node.js

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('events');

  const result = await collection.aggregate([
    {
      $project: {
        _id: 1,
        eventDate: 1,
        eventDatePlustwodaysandtwelvehours: {
          $dateAdd: {
            startDate: {
              $dateAdd: {
                startDate: "$eventDate",
                unit: "day",
                amount: 2
              }
            },
            unit: "hour",
            amount: 12
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);

  await client.close();
}

example();

Python

from pymongo import MongoClient
from bson.date_time import datetime

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['events']

    result = list(collection.aggregate([
        {
            '$project': {
                '_id': 1,
                'eventDate': 1,
                'eventDatePlustwodaysandtwelvehours': {
                    '$dateAdd': {
                        'startDate': {
                            '$dateAdd' : {
                                'startDate': '$eventDate',
                                'unit': 'day',
                                'amount': 2,
                            }
                        },
                        'unit': 'hour',
                        'amount': 12,
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]))

    print(result)

    client.close()

example()