$clusterTime is checked first

What changes in $clusterTime is checked first compared with MongoDB and what your application has to do.

This difference is of the Different kind.

What MongoDB does

With $clusterTime and a field of the command both wrong, it answers the error of the field.

What TeselaDB does

It answers the $clusterTime error.

What your application has to do

Fix both; the error you see first changes.

See also