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Date string comparison: am I doing something wrong?

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Posted on by efialtes 350

Hi all

I have defined a flow triggering everytime a new item is stored on a sharepoint list. 

The flow evaluates the content of the column "Fecha" (date) and sends an email with different Subject if it is greater (or not) than utcnow()-1. The body of te email includes the date obtained from the Sharepoint item.

 

Surprisingly, no matter I store a date from next year, or a date from last century, the condition evaluation resulta is the same

 

Please see attached screenshot with the flow and the two emails received

date_comparison.png

 

This kind of date comparisons used to work fine last May-June.

Suggestions are welcome

Thank you in advance!

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  • efialtes Profile Picture
    efialtes 350 on at

    I modified slightly the expressions compared in the condition block, to make sure I am comparing the same date formats, but it still fails

     

    Please see attached screenshot with the flow and the two emails received

     

    date_comparison_2.png

  • telu Profile Picture
    telu Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi efialtes,

     

    Could you just add the Fecha token(output) in the left, just like the left branch below instead of "triggerBody()?["Fecha"]", while in the right hand side, could you use adddays(utcnow(), -1)?

     

    Thanks

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