$year - Amazon DocumentDB
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$year

The $year operator in Amazon DocumentDB extracts the year component from a date or timestamp.

Parameters

  • expression: The date or timestamp expression from which to extract the year component.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $year operator to extract the year component from a date field.

Create sample documents

db.events.insertMany([ { "_id": 1, "date": ISODate("2023-04-15T00:00:00Z") }, { "_id": 3, "date": ISODate("2021-12-31T00:00:00Z") } ]);

Query example

db.events.aggregate([ { $project: { year: { $year: "$date" } } } ]);

Output

[ { "_id": 1, "year": 2023 }, { "_id": 3, "year": 2021 } ]

Code examples

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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 collection = db.collection('events'); const result = await collection.aggregate([ { $project: { year: { $year: "$date" } } } ]).toArray(); console.log(result); await client.close(); } example();
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'] collection = db['events'] result = list(collection.aggregate([ {'$project': {'year': {'$year': '$date'}}} ])) print(result) client.close() example()