I want to store this date in my document
$dateStr = strtotime("2010-01-13 00:00:00");
My datetime in my PHP is Europe/Rome
date.timezone Europe/Rome Europe/Rome
Default timezone Europe/Rome When I Save the document with
"date" => new \MongoDate($dateStr),
My date is
"data" : ISODate("2010-01-12T23:00:00.000Z"),
MongoDB stores dates and times are in UTC and 2010-01-12T23:00:00.000Z is the correct UTC date for your local time 2010-01-13 00:00:00. You should convert the time back to your local time when querying the data.