I think sticking to a date string is the safest thing to do. Especially if you use iso yyyy-mm-dd because the database indexes are predix based and are able to sort and build ranges. So you don't loose much.
The problem is regarding the conceptually incompatible offset and #asDate. #asDate just cuts off minutes hours and seconds from am DateAndTime. So if the offset has a startDate of yesterday asDate will give a date yesterday. In my code I either use "asLocal asDate" or date as string. No better solution so far

Am 04.03.2017 um 12:15 schrieb Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com>:

Hi Hilaire,

it is interesting to see your posts and having similar topics as me when starting to use voyage.
I ended up with saving ZTimestamps. But I will think about storing strings too, because this is more readable when having direct look into mongo.
There was a discussion in slack a few days ago (February, 21st) about saving Dates in voyage.

Regards 
Sabine



2017-03-04 11:21 GMT+01:00 HilaireFernandes [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]>:
Concerning this problem, one option I found is to get far away of the
Voyage/Mongo Date/DateAndTime representation/conversion and stick to
string, not really efficience, but well...

mongoBirthday
<mongoDescription>
^ VOToOneDescription new
        attributeName: 'birthday';
        accessor: (MAPluggableAccessor
                read: [:person | person birthday ifNotNil: [person birthday yyyymmdd]]
                write: [:person :string |string ifNotNil: [person birthday: string
asDate]]);
        yourself


Le 03/03/2017 �� 21:12, Hilaire a ��crit :
> Not sure it is related to this:
> http://forum.world.st/Possible-bug-with-Voyage-Mongo-date-tt4735597.html

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