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Why does min Date get converted to unix epoch on insert?

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    • Dev Tools 2019-05-20, Dev Tools 2019-06-03

      Semi-related to SERVER-40737, when inserting the min Date, Date(NumberLong("-9223372036854775808"), from the mongo shell it gets converted into ISODate("1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"). Is this intentional? I would expect it to error instead of silently converting the date.

      MongoDB shell version v4.1.10-150-g8560239dba
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb
Implicit session: session { "id" : UUID("5222ca7a-9585-45c2-a322-a8abe6b72791") }
MongoDB server version: 4.1.10-150-g8560239dba
PRIMARY> db.test.insertOne({date: new Date(NumberLong("-9223372036854775808"))})
{
	"acknowledged" : true,
	"insertedId" : ObjectId("5cba186bc1feb27106e4c8b5")
}
PRIMARY> db.test.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5cba186bc1feb27106e4c8b5"), "date" : ISODate("1970-01-01T00:00:00Z") }
PRIMARY> new Date(NumberLong("-9223372036854775808"))
ISODate("0NaN-NaN-NaNTNaN:NaN:NaNZ")

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            Reporter:
            shane.harvey@mongodb.com Shane Harvey
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