Facing issue with date comparison

RE: Facing issue with date comparison

Chris — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:39:31 GMT

Also to note, the todatetime() function applies a timezone offset, "todatetime("10/02/2021 09:00 AM")" in eastern time will return 5 AM ET. To return the actual text value of the time, apply gmt() as:

gmt(todatetime("10/02/2021 09:00 AM"))

It is also strongly encouraged to use proper data types when storing to the DB, storing such things as datetime values as text will most certainly present issues down the road.

RE: Facing issue with date comparison

shamima0001 — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:09:47 GMT

Thanks it worked, I had dbValue stored in text format.

RE: Facing issue with date comparison

hrishikeshd997 — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:53:14 GMT

Is your dbValue a local variable or a rule input of date and time type? If its a rule input of the same data type as now() there shouldn't be an issue if not then it is comparing a text with a timestamp which will not give desired output. Try converting it using todatetime before comparison and it should work.

todatetime("10/02/2021 09:00 AM") < now()