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ObjectId.getTimestamp()

ObjectId.getTimestamp()
Returns:The timestamp portion of the ObjectId() object as a Date.

In the following example, call the getTimestamp() method on an ObjectId (e.g. ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e")):

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ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e").getTimestamp()

This will return the following output:

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ISODate("2012-10-15T21:26:17Z")

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