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Hi Lynda,
Where are you getting the date value from? I mean what date do you assign to the "dateVariable" variable? If possible please let me know a sample page where you have this setup implemented, I will have a look,
The date switches at the Shopify page will not work because we are using a different Liquid implementation. From the next release however we will add alot of new date type filters, almost all of the switches here will work: Custom Date and Time Format Strings
Thanks,
Mihai
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Any news on this?
I would like to be able to have a variable that could show the current date and month seperately.
I would think that i could use the "old" {module_today} and "split" them up, but this sounds much nicer.
I am doing a birthday app, that can display employees birthday on a "internal" website for a client of mine.
At the moment i am working on something like this:
{% for item in items %}
{% if {{item.['Birthday-month']}} contains "January" %}
{% if {{item.['Birthday-day']}} contains "13" %}
<div class="birthday">
<div class="name">Happy birthday to {{item.name}}</div>
</div>
{%endif %}
{%endif %}
{%endfor%}
Where "January" and "13" should be the current date variable.
Not sure if this is the way to do it, but works so far 
Hi Liam
Is it first possible to do this tomorrow after the update, or is it possible with the current filters to get current month and date?
I've been using {{releaseDate | date: "%d"}} for some other things on the site, but is there a similar one to display current date available now? 
Great. That was what i understood from reading the post, but didn't know if I had missed something.
I'll just have to wait until tomorrow. Nearly perfect timing though!
This is awesome, works great.
I have done this, and works fine. (maybe the code could be nicer?)
{% assign birthdayDay = Globals.Site.DateNow| date: "%d" %}
{% assign birthdayMonth = Globals.Site.DateNow| date: "%M" %}
{% for item in items %}
{% assign birthdayYear = {{item.['Birthday-year']}} %}
{% if {{item.['Birthday-month']}} == birthdayMonth %}
{% if {{item.['Birthday-day']}} == birthdayDay %}
<div class="birthday">
<br>
<div class="name">Happy birthday to {{item.name}}</div>
<br>
</div>
<br>
<br>
{%endif %}
{%endif %}
{%endfor%}
Just a question.
I can get this tag working fine {{Globals.Site.DateNow| minus: "2015-01-15"| date: "%d"}}.
It is great that it is now possible to calculate, but what if I want to calculate with a "variable".
The thing I want to achieve is that you also can display how old the person is on his/hers birtday.
I've made this {% assign birthdayYear = {{item.['Birthday-year']}} %}
And i thought I could combine it with {{Globals.Site.DateNow| minus: "2015-01-15"| date: "%d"}}
in something like {{Globals.Site.DateNow| minus: {{birthdayYear}}| date: "%y"}} or something like that,
but I can't get it to work, I think that the format on the two dates i am trying to compare is not working,
because I am trying to compare a "complete" date with only the year.
Hope it makes sense, and somebody can give me a pointer
and is now there for your if statements as a note
But what your after is the inclusion of data types in BC as of the latest release
http://docs.businesscatalyst.com/developers#!/liquid/datatypes
So you can convert your custom text field to a data and then run your checks, in fact you can do heaps. BC did an awesome job on this stuff!
THX LIAM! 
Just what i needed. Didn't notice the "convert" before you pointed me in the right direction.
Ended up with this and it seems to be working
{% assign birthdayDay = Globals.Site.DateNow| date: "%d" %}
{% assign birthdayMonth = Globals.Site.DateNow| date: "%M" %}
{% for item in items %}
{% assign birthdayYearVar = {{item.['Birthday-year']}} | convert: "number" %}
{% assign birthdayCalc = globals.site.dateNow | date: "yyyy" | minus: birthdayYearVar %}
{% if {{item.['Birthday-month']}} == birthdayMonth %}
{% if {{item.['Birthday-day']}} == birthdayDay %}
<div class="birthday">
<br>
<div class="name">Happy birthday to {{item.name}}</div>
<br>
<br>{{item.name}} turns {{birthdayCalc}} years old today.
</div>
<br>
<br>
{%endif %}
{%endif %}
{%endfor%}
Thx again Liam!
No Problem, have a go at using and as well and you can get that code even tidier. Worth doing. New stuff, get into the habit earlier the better.
Also see the minus sign at the end of this example below? This means it will supress the white space in your markup. View the page source where you just did the above, you will see what it looks like without
{% if {{item.['Birthday-month']}} == birthdayMonth -%}
Thx Liam, I will look into that!
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