# \$1second
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The `$second` operator in Amazon DocumentDB extracts the seconds component from a date or timestamp. It is used to retrieve the seconds value from a date or timestamp field.

**Parameters**
+ `expression`: The date or timestamp field to extract the seconds value from. This expression can be a field path or any valid expression that resolves to a date or timestamp.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example demonstrates how to use the `$second` operator to extract the seconds component from a date field.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.users.insertMany([
  { name: "John", dob: new Date("1990-05-15T12:30:45Z") },
  { name: "Jane", dob: new Date("1985-09-20T23:59:59Z") },
  { name: "Bob", dob: new Date("2000-01-01T00:00:00Z") }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.users.aggregate([{ $project: { name: 1, dobSeconds: { $second: "$dob" } } }])
```

**Output**

```
[
  { "_id" : ObjectId("6089a9c306a829d1f8b456a1"), "name" : "John", "dobSeconds" : 45 },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("6089a9c306a829d1f8b456a2"), "name" : "Jane", "dobSeconds" : 59 },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("6089a9c306a829d1f8b456a3"), "name" : "Bob", "dobSeconds" : 0 }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$second` 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 users = db.collection('users');

  const result = await users.aggregate([{ $project: { name: 1, dobSeconds: { $second: '$dob' } } }]).toArray();
  console.log(result);

  await 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']
    users = db['users']

    result = list(users.aggregate([{'$project': {'name': 1, 'dobSeconds': {'$second': '$dob'}}}]))
    print(result)

    client.close()

example ()
```

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