Need help with a challenge on APIs and Microservices

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
I can’t figure out the desired output format for this test:

I can add an exercise to any user by posting form data userId(_id), description, duration, and optionally date to /api/exercise/add. If no date supplied it will use current date. App will return the user object with the exercise fields added.

It is really confusing what is actually wanted here. I even looked at the source code for the test on github (/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/apis-and-microservices-projects/exercise-tracker.english.md), but still can’t seem to get it right for some reason.

Here is example output when I add an exercise:

{"username":"testuser","description":"test description","duration":"60","_id":"5f125d3049ad7b01dcd1f331","date":"Mon Jan 01 1990"}

This looks exactly the same as the expected output in the source code, so I have no idea how to fix this. Also there is no indication in the problem description that the date returned here should be formatted with toDateString(), which is pure evil as well.

Your code so far
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module.exports.addExercise = (newExercise, cb) => {
  console.log("adding exercise");

  const date = newExercise.date ? newExercise.date : new Date();

  const insertExercise = {
    description: newExercise.description,
    duration: newExercise.duration,
    date: date
  };

  User.findOneAndUpdate(
    { _id: newExercise.userId },
    { $push: { exercises: insertExercise } },
    { new: true, useFindAndModify: false },
    (err, data) => {
      if (err) {
        console.log(err);
      } else {
        const date = new Date(insertExercise.date).toDateString();
        const returnData = {
          username: data.username,
          description: insertExercise.description,
          duration: insertExercise.duration,
          _id: newExercise.userId,
          date: date
        }
        
        console.log(returnData)
        
        cb(null, returnData);
      }
    }
  );
};

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Challenge: Exercise Tracker

Link to the challenge:

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Only difference I could spot is that tests expect duration to be a number, but your api returns a string.

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That was exactly it. Thanks.