Does anybody know how to get current server time using mongodb c# driver?

Question

I am trying to get all the collection names from MongoDb server using C# code using db.GetCollectionNames() method.

I have 12 collections in my database, but the above method returns an empty list. I have verified that I am referring to the correct database. What am I doing wrong? Or if there is an alternate way?

Answer 1

var database = client.GetDatabase("databaseName");
var collection = database.GetCollection("collectionName");
var newDocument = new BsonDocument { { "timestamp", DateTime.UtcNow} };
collection.InsertOne(newDocument);

Which should generate a document below in MongoDB:

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5761046d18bbc402248650a1"), "timestamp" : ISODate("2016-06-15T07:31:57.235Z") }

The snippet above is for MongoDB Driver v2.2.x and MongoDB 3.2.x.