mysql和mongodb存储时间,在MongoDB中存储日期的最佳方法是什么？

I am just starting to learn about MongoDB and hoping to slowly migrate from MySQL.

In MySQL, there are two different data types - DATE ('0000-00-00') and DATETIME ('0000-00-00 00:00:00'). In my MySQL, I use the DATE type, but I am not sure how to transfer them into MongoDB. In MongoDB, there is a Date object, which is comparable to DATETIME. It seems it would be most appropriate to use Date objects, but that would be wasting space, since hours, min, sec are not utilized. On the other hand, storing dates as strings seems wrong.

Is there a golden standard on storing dates ('0000-00-00') in MongoDB?

解决方案

BSON (the storage data format used by mongo natively) has a dedicated date type UTC datetime which is a 64 bit (so, 8 byte) signed integer denoting milliseconds since Unix time epoch. There are very few valid reasons why you would use any other type for storing dates and timestamps.

If you're desperate to save a few bytes per date (again, with mongo's padding and minimum block size and everything this is only worth the trouble in very rare cases) you can store dates as a 3 byte binary blob by storing it as an unsigned integer in YYYYMMDD format, or a 2 byte binary blob denoting "days since January 1st of year X" where X must be chosen appropriately since that only supports a date range spanning 179 years.

EDIT: As the discussion below demonstrates this is only a viable approach in very rare circumstances. Basically; use mongo's native date type ;)