In Mongo 2.8 RC2 there is a new data aggregation operator: $dateToString which can be used to group by a day and simply have a “YYYY-MM-DD” in the result:
Example from the documentation:
db.sales.aggregate(
[
{
$project: {
yearMonthDay: { $dateToString: { format: "%Y-%m-%d", date: "$date" } },
time: { $dateToString: { format: "%H:%M:%S:%L", date: "$date" } }
}
}
]
)
will result in:
{ "_id" : 1, "yearMonthDay" : "2014-01-01", "time" : "08:15:39:736" }