Return dates not strings

[ausangshukla]

I was not able to find the documentation to allow for dates to be returned in the results.

1. My date is indexed properly field :created_at, type: "date"
2. Im able to get back the date field back, but its a string, not a date type
3. Is there a possiblity of returning the created_at field defined above as a date object and not a string ?

Thanks in advance