# \$1dateTrunc
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New from version 8.0

Not supported by Elastic cluster.

The `$dateTrunc` aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB truncates a date to a specified unit.

**Parameters**
+ `date`: A date expression that resolves to a date or timestamp.
+ `unit`: A string that specifies the time unit for the subtrahend expression. Supported units are `year`, `quarter`, `month`, `week`, `day`, `hour`, `minute`, `second`, and `millisecond`.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example demonstrates how to use the `$dateTrunc` operator to truncate a date to to the hour.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.events.insertMany([
  {
    eventName: "Event 1",
    eventTime: ISODate("2025-04-01T12:15:00Z")
  },
  {
    eventName: "Event 2",
    eventTime: ISODate("2025-08-15T14:33:22Z")
  },
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.events.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      eventName: 1,
      eventTime: 1,
      truncatedToHour: {
        $dateTrunc: {
          date: "$eventTime",
          unit: "hour"
        }
      }
    }
  }
]);
```

**Output**

```
[
  {
    _id: ObjectId('6924a258d66dcae121d29515'),
    eventName: 'Event 1',
    eventTime: ISODate('2025-04-01T12:15:00.000Z'),
    truncatedToHour: ISODate('2025-04-01T12:00:00.000Z')
  },
  {
    _id: ObjectId('6924a258d66dcae121d29516'),
    eventName: 'Event 2',
    eventTime: ISODate('2025-08-15T14:33:22.000Z'),
    truncatedToHour: ISODate('2025-08-15T14:00:00.000Z')
  }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$dateTrunc` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const events = db.collection('events');
  
  const result = await events.aggregate([
    {
      $project: {
        eventName: 1,
        eventTime: 1,
        truncatedToHour: {
          $dateTrunc: {
            date: "$eventTime",
            unit: "hour"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]).toArray();
  
  console.log(result);
  client.close();
}

example();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client['test']
    events = db['events']
    
    result = list(events.aggregate([
        {
            "$project": {
                "eventName": 1,
                "eventTime": 1,
                "truncatedToHour": {
                    "$dateTrunc": {
                        "date": "$eventTime",
                        "unit": "hour"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]))
    
    print(result)
    client.close()

example()
```

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