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Date Comparisons Not Behaving As Expected For GT, LT, or EQ - using string objects as well as date objects as well as striptime

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What happened?

I am trying to compare dates, and none of my queries are working as expected. I want to compare “due” to “date(today)” in which “due” is a field I have set in a file.

DQL

due:: July 25 2022

Now, check what today and this.due return: = date(today) = this.due

Now, attempt to compare them:

Inline DQL Query	Expected	Actual
`= this.due >= date(today)`	True	True
`= date(today) <= this.due`	True	True
`= date(today) >= this.due`	True	False
`= this.due <= date(today)`	True	False
`= date(today) = this.due`	True	False
`= this.due = date(today)`	True	False
`= this.due > date(today)`	False	True
`= date(today) > this.due`	False	False
`= this.due < date(today)`	False	False
`= date(today) < this.due`	False	True

And then, using striptime() because many suggestion on GitHub point to this function:

Inline DQL Query	Expected	Actual
`= striptime(date(this.due)) >= date(today)`	True	False

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.5.41

Obsidian Version

0.15.8

OS

MacOS

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Created a year ago
Comments:6

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mnvwvnmcommented, Jul 26, 2022

You’re using a no recognized date format. You can’t use due:: July 25 2022. You need to use ISO format, i.e., due:: 2022-07-25. https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/data-annotation/#field-types In the format it is, it’s a simple string.

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mnvwvnmcommented, Jul 26, 2022

Yes, but there’s a big difference between the format to input data (in case the format to be recognized as date) and the output format (the format you can define as default in settings or for specific case using the function dateformat()). 😄 @AB1908 will close this “bug” report.

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