FreeMarker Current Date Comparison

Question

Is it possible to do date comparisons against the current date in a freemarker template without passing the current date into the template?

Answer 1

Better way to compare two dates in freemarker is to find the difference between two dates.

<#assign difference = (custom_date?long / 86400000)?round - (.now?long / 86400000)?round />

If the difference is greater than 0, it's a future date, if it equal it is same date, if it less than, it is previous date