GlideDateTime not working as expected.

[Kingstan M]

Hi SNC,

Please see this, I do not understand why this return false?

I get false for >> gs.info(today>incoming);

var today = gs.nowDateTime()
var incoming = '28-08-2022 12:00 AM';

gs.info(today);
gs.info(incoming);
gs.info(today>incoming);

[Kingstan M]

Result :

*** Script: patchStartGDT : 25-09-2022 08:13 PM
*** Script: todaygdt : 02-09-2022 06:09 PM
*** Script: false

var dateStart = "25-09-2022 08:13 PM";

var gdtStart = new GlideDateTime();
gdtStart.setDisplayValue(dateStart, "dd-MM-yyy hh:mm a");
var patchStartGDT = gdtStart.getDisplayValue();
gs.info('patchStartGDT : ' + patchStartGDT);

var today = new GlideDateTime();
var todaygdt = today.getDisplayValue();
gs.info('todaygdt : ' + todaygdt);
gs.info(todaygdt > patchStartGDT);

[Rohit Sarkar1]

Please use GlideDateTime() in the incoming variable and as already suggested by others you should be good

[Maciej Kowalski]

Hi, try This.

var today = new gs.nowDateTime();

var incoming = new GlideDateTime('28-08-2022 12:00 AM');

gs.info(today);

gs.info(incoming);

gs.info(today>incoming);

you did not add new before gs.nowDateTime(); and you should add new GlideDateTime before date and close it in brackets.
more info here:https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/sandiego/server/c_APIRef

[Kingstan M]

Why the output of this? >> gs.info(today);

Is showing like this? >> *** Script: [object GlideSystemDateUtil2]

[Kingstan M · Accepted solution]

This below code works >>

use getValue() method instead of getDisplayValue()

Reference : Community_Page

var today = gs.nowDateTime();
var incoming =  '28-08-2022 12:00 AM';


var gdt_incoming = new GlideDateTime();
gdt_incoming.setDisplayValue(incoming, "dd-MM-yyy hh:mm a");
var gdt_incoming_converted = gdt_incoming.getValue();
gs.info('gdt_incoming_converted : ' + gdt_incoming_converted);

var gdt_today = new GlideDateTime();
gdt_today.setDisplayValue(today, "dd-MM-yyy hh:mm a");
var gdt_today_converted = gdt_today.getValue();
gs.info('gdt_today_converted : ' + gdt_today_converted)

gs.info(gdt_today_converted > gdt_incoming_converted);