MongoDB/Mongoose querying at a specific date?

...5+ years later, I strongly suggest using date-fns instead

import endOfDayfrom 'date-fns/endOfDay'
import startOfDay from 'date-fns/startOfDay'

MyModel.find({
  createdAt: {
    $gte: startOfDay(new Date()),
    $lte: endOfDay(new Date())
  }
})

For those of us using Moment.js

const moment = require('moment')

const today = moment().startOf('day')

MyModel.find({
  createdAt: {
    $gte: today.toDate(),
    $lte: moment(today).endOf('day').toDate()
  }
})

Important: all moments are mutable!

tomorrow = today.add(1, 'days') does not work since it also mutates today. Calling moment(today) solves that problem by implicitly cloning today.

That should work if the dates you saved in the DB are without time (just year, month, day).

Chances are that the dates you saved were new Date(), which includes the time components. To query those times you need to create a date range that includes all moments in a day.

db.posts.find({ //query today up to tonight
    created_on: {
        $gte: new Date(2012, 7, 14), 
        $lt: new Date(2012, 7, 15)
    }
})