How do I use where with now function

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I’ve tried several different constructs as shown below, but I can’t get this statement to work. No results are shown. If I change “lt” to “!=” it works, but gives the wrong results. What am I doing wrong?

Front Matter

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date = 2020-06-01T08:00:00+08:00
event_date = 2020-06-11T08:00:00+08:00
title = "My Event"
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.Params.event_date is set in archtypes: {{(.Date.AddDate 0 0 10).Format "2006-01-02"}}.

{{$pages := where .Pages .Params.event_date "lt" now}}

{{$pages := where .Pages (time .Params.event_date) "lt" now}}

{{$pages := where .Pages (time .Params.event_date) "lt" (now.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-0700")}}

{{$pages := where .Pages (time .Params.event_date) "lt" (now.Format "2006-01-02")}}

[jmooring]

Please show an example of front matter, including the delineators.

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I’ve updated my post with my front matter. Thank you.

[jmooring]

  {{ range .Pages.ByParam "event_date" }}
    {{ if .Params.event_date.Before now }}
      <h2><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></h2>
      <p>{{ .Summary }}</p>
    {{ end }}
  {{ end }}

You don’t need to cast event_date to time. Hugo sees an unquoted TOML timestamp as type time.Time. If you were to use JSON, YAML, or a quoted value in TOML, you would need to cast to time before doing the comparison.

EDIT: I don’t think there’s any way of doing this with a where clause without converting event_date and now to integers.

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Thank you. Appreciate the reply and code.

I’ve previously got this to work with an if statement, but was hoping to understand why this doesn’t work with a where clause as in my OP. I’ll look into converting the dates to integers and see if that works.

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{{ range where .Pages "Params.event_date.Unix" "lt" now.Unix }}
  <h2><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a></h2>
  <p>{{ .Summary }}</p>
{{ end }}

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Thank you! That works.

i was just scrolling through this article and about to give unix a go. Thanks again for your time.