When MongoDB inserts a date, it is converting it to UTC

Question

I have a date in string format, that I am trying to get into MongoDB as a DateTime type. The date-string is already in UTC, and is in the format 2017-11-30 19:41:00:677.

When inserting into MongoDB, I am inserting the data:

{
    "timestamp": new Date("2017-11-30 19:41:00:677"),
    ...
}

However, when I do this, the date is thought to be local time (it seems), and Mongo converts it to UTC by adding 4 hours. Yet the 19:41 is already in UTC.

How can I tell Mongo that the timezone is already in UTC?

Answer 1

MongoDB stores times in UTC by default, and will convert any local time representations into this form. Applications that must operate or report on some unmodified local time value may store the time zone alongside the UTC timestamp, and compute the original local time in their application logic.

https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.2/tutorial/model-time-data/