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

In case someone else has this issue.

I was comparing 2 dates

[#assign .now?date lte today?date]

(they both were 10/10/2019)

but for some reason it was false even though it was equal, so what I had to do was

[#assign .now?string["dd/MM/yyyy"]?date lte today?date]