MongoDB date insert - mongodb

Question

This is my schema:
db.createCollection("user_clicks", {
validator: {
$jsonSchema: {
bsonType: "object",
required: [ "session_id", "country", "browser", "url", "date"],
properties: {
session_id: {
bsonType: "string",
description: "must be a string and is required" },
country: {
bsonType: "string",
description: "country name and is required"},
browser: {
bsonType: "string",
description: "browser name and is required"},
url : {
bsonType: "string",
description: "user click url and is required"},
date: {
bsonType: "date",
description: "localdatetime and is required"}}}})
This is the code I am using to generate data:
mgeneratejs `{
"session_id": "$oid",
"country": "$country",
"browser": {
"$choose": {
"from": [
"Firefox",
"Chrome",
"Safari",
"Explorer"
],
"weights": [
1,
2,
2,
1
]
}
},
"url": {
"$choose": {
"from": [
"google.com/images",
"facebook.com/profile1538713",
"soundcloud.com/playlist03",
"some-url.com/home",
"sinoptik.ua/kyiv"
],
"weights": [
1,
2,
2,
1,
3
]
}
},
"date": {
"$date": {
"min": "2016-08-01T23:59:59.999Z",
"max": "2016-10-01T23:59:59.999Z"
}
}
}` -n 5 | mongoimport --uri="mongodb://localhost:27017/events" --collection user_clicks --mode=insert
I'm trying to generate random date by using mgeneratejs and mongoimport. The problem is that i can't insert any date like : "3/13/2019" or "2019-03-26T23:44:26Z" (that's what i actually need). The error is:
**WriteResult({
"nInserted" : 0,
"writeError" : {
"code" : 121,
"errmsg" : "Document failed validation"
}
})**
I try to insert like new Date("2019-03-26T23:44:26Z") and it works! Please help how to automate every time inserting create new Date(date) or how to fix this !

Answer 1

I am confused at what your issue is... everything is working as it should.. You store dates in Mongo as Date objects (that have the type of Date)..
If you want to store dates in Mongo in a format like 3/13/2019 you can do something like this:
// javascript
let dateToInsert = new Date("3/13/2019");

Answer 2

Use the below before inserting the random date and it should work:
new Date(randomDate);