Altova MapForce 2026 Enterprise Edition

Extracts an ObjectId's creation date (as an xs:dateTime in UTC), converted from the stored 4-byte timestamp.

MF_Func_objectId-datetime

 

Languages

Built-in

 

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

objectId

bson:objectId

The BSON objectId value from which the date and time in UTC are extracted.

 

Example

For an ObjectId value of 5E361F8A640000000000012D, the objectId-datetime function returns 2020-02-02T01:02:02Z. This is the UTC datetime converted from the first 4 bytes (5E361F8A).

 

Although the BSON ObjectId is internally stored as a 12-byte value, MapForce automatically converts it to a 24-character hexadecimal string for readability.

 

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