Why is this date comparison evaluating to false (see in log section of the screenshot)? Isn’t the left date clearly less than the right date?
I checked, both variables are defined as strings. The left date is the date of a particular file, and I used Get File/Folder Date action to get that number. The right date is just the current date and time, and I used Get Date Time action to get that number.
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Hi Katie,
If I am not mistaken I believe “2/25/2014 4:00:16 PM” is more than “2/25/2014 04:32:33 PM” when compared using a string method. The issue is the formatting of the time in the second date time, it has a padded zero on the hours.
mm-dd-yyyy has got to be the daftest date layout anyway. Always safest to format dates as yyyy-mm-dd (ISO standard) and times similarly. Or use date variables rather than string.