Mongoose Date.now time wrong

Asked May 19 '16 at 13:10

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In my Mongoose schema I'm using Date.now to insert a user based on creation time. For some strange reason (unknown to me), the time is one hour behind. I'm thinking it's because I'm (GMT+1) but and my Express/Node/Mongo setup must be standard GMT time, or maybe not. Has anyone come across this before?

User = new Schema({
    fullName: {
        type: String,
        required: true
    },
    password: {
        type: String,
        required: true
    },
    emailAddress: {
        type: String,
        unique: true,
        required: [true, 'Email address is required.']
    },
    uniqueURL: {
        type: String,
        required: true,
        unique: true
    },
    created: {
        type: Date,
        default: Date.now
    }
});

asked May 19 '16 at 13:10

DennisTurn

`Date.now()` returns a timestamp, which is timezone-independent. How do you determine that it's an hour behind? – robertklep May 19 '16 at 14:25
I checked inside Mongo. – DennisTurn May 19 '16 at 14:32
Does MongoDB show a timezone in the results? – robertklep May 19 '16 at 14:41
Here is what shows: "created" : ISODate("2016-05-19T14:39:09.999Z"), – DennisTurn May 19 '16 at 14:50
And it's that timestamp that's an hour behind the "current" time? It's in UTC, which should be okay. When you retrieve it from Node it should be converted back to your current timezone. – robertklep May 19 '16 at 15:04
I now see what you're saying. This works fine: https://jsfiddle.net/FLhpq/4/ thanks. – DennisTurn May 19 '16 at 15:11

Mongoose Date.now time wrong

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