Is there an official documentation on the Date object that is used in couchDB?

Question

I did not find any documentation on the Date object that is used within a map function of a couchDB view. There is some strange behaviour that I encountered and I need some closure.

Following code:

emit(doc.type, { date: new Date() })

outputs:

{ date: "2012-03-10T18:57:32.408Z" }

Yet using:

emit(doc.type, { date: new Date("1984-12-10") })

outputs:

{ date: "Invalid Date" }

So what Date object is couchDB using here? It cannot be the JavaScript one, because new Date("1984-12-10") works there. couchDB however expects the date in a "1984/12/10" format.

Does anybody has any information concerning this issue?

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1280 – rwilliams Mar 10 '12 at 19:57 — rwilliams, Mar 10 '12 at 19:57
What version of CouchDb are you using? – rwilliams Mar 10 '12 at 19:58 — rwilliams, Mar 10 '12 at 19:58
Thank rwilliams for the link. I am using version 1.1. – Amberlamps Mar 10 '12 at 20:05 — Amberlamps, Mar 10 '12 at 20:05

rwilliams · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-10T22:47:59.790

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CouchDB's views are parsed with SpiderMonkey. I believe CouchDB 1.1.1 added support for a much newer version of SpiderMonkey(1.8.5). It's quite possible you are still running an older version of SpiderMonkey that doesn't properly handle Date() as you would expect. I don't know anything about your platform so I cannot recommend an upgrade path but I believe this is what you're experiencing.

edited Mar 10 '12 at 22:47

answered Mar 10 '12 at 20:14

rwilliams

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Thank you very much for your insight on that topic. I am using Windows XP. I will try a newer version eventually. – Amberlamps Mar 10 '12 at 20:38
@T.J. Crowder: You obviously were not following the previous conversation between rwilliams and me – Amberlamps Mar 10 '12 at 21:58

Is there an official documentation on the Date object that is used in couchDB?

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