Date objects converted to strings

[eashman]

Is there a way we can allow Ruby date objects to get passed through to Fluent as dates as opposed to strings? See comment from this thread:

fluent/fluent-plugin-mongo#18

[repeatedly]

No way because Ruby's Date cannot be represented in JSON/MessagePack or other serialization format.
If you want to do it, restore date object from string representation in plugin code.