Default conversion for $date type should be Instant

[mikeyg123]

When deserialising to a Map or similar flexible type $date fields get deserialised as java.util.date
e.g: something like
mongoTemplate.find(query, Map.class, "myCollection")
will convert:

  {"time": {
    "$date": "2024-10-18T16:32:51.058Z"
  }}

returning a Date for the "time" field.
java.util.Date is an antiquated, broken and difficult to use class. Since timezone ('z') information is specified in the value the natural default conversion would be java.time.Instant. (or possibly a ZonedDateTime but this is possibly less convenient in the majority of cases)
In general all uses of java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar should be removed.

[christophstrobl]

Have you tried to configure the mapping to make use of the MongoClients capability for java.time types via useNativeDriverJavaTimeCodecs as mentioned in the reference documentation?

If that does not work for you and you'd like us to spend some time investigating, please take the time to provide a complete minimal sample (something that we can unzip or git clone, build, and deploy) that reproduces the problem.

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