hi all, is there an easy way to compare if a dates object passed in is equal to today ?? my code so far : today = new Date(); //this has time as well which is causing the problem datePassedIn = [input] if(today == datePassedIn){ . . } thanks in advance.

You don't specify which language you're talking about. I assume it's Java. If it isn't please ignore the rest of this post. I guess you expected this to be simple, didn't you? After all, Java is supposed to be a easy-to-use language. Well, the best I could come up with was the following. I wonder if anyone still thinks Java is easy to use after seeing this. If anyone has a better way to compare dates, let me know. Your code won't work because the == sign compares addresses (object IDs) and not the dates. Date.equals() won't work either because it will compare to the millisecond, whereas you just want to compare to the day. ================================================================ public static boolean isToday(Date date) { Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(); today.setTime(new Date()); Calendar otherday = Calendar.getInstance(); otherday.setTime(date); return otherday.get(Calendar.YEAR) == today.get(Calendar.YEAR) && otherday.get(Calendar.MONTH) == today.get(Calendar.MONTH) && otherday.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) == today.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH); }