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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-50336

$dateFromString support for additional format specifiers (such as "%j" for day of year)

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      The $dateFromString Format Specifiers don't include the strftime %j modifier which is used to decode the day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366).

      It appears that this modifier is understood as part of kDateToStringFormatMap from timelib's TIMELIB_FORMAT_DAY_OF_YEAR when converting from a date to a string, but not from a string to a date.

      For example:

      db.foo.drop()
      db.foo.insert({ _id: 1, d: "2020-194-14:24:45.463" });
      db.foo.aggregate( [ {
         $project: {
            date: {
               $dateFromString: {
                  dateString: "%d",
                  format: "%Y-%j-%H:%M:%S.%L"
               }
            }
         }
      } ] )
      // "errmsg" : "Failed to optimize pipeline :: caused by :: Invalid format character '%j' in format string",
      

      Note that for the above we were able to work around this limitation as follows:

      db.foo.drop()
      db.foo.insert({ _id: 1, d: "2020-194-14:24:45.463" });
      db.foo.aggregate([
      { $project: {
          date: {
              $let: {
                  vars: {
                      parts: { $split: [ "$d", "-" ] }
                  },
                  in: { 
                      $add: [ 
                          { $toDate: { $concat: [ 
                              { $arrayElemAt: [ "$$parts", 0 ] }, 
                              "-01-01T", 
                              { $arrayElemAt: [ "$$parts", 2 ] } ] 
                          } }, 
                          { $multiply: [ 
                              { $subtract: [ 
                                  { $toInt: { $arrayElemAt: [ "$$parts", 1 ] } }, 
                                  1 ] }, 86400000 ] }
                      ] 
                  } 
              }
          }
      }}
      ]);
      // { "_id" : 1, "date" : ISODate("2020-07-12T14:24:45.463Z") }
      

            Assignee:
            jennifer.peshansky@mongodb.com Jennifer Peshansky (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            alex.bevilacqua@mongodb.com Alex Bevilacqua
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