DateTime.LocalNow to number conversion

Hi all,

I have a table in my report that contains "DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow())" in order to provide a "last refreshed on:" card. What I'd like to do, for a forecasting piece, is only display events after that date.

Our event dates are structured as a whole number in the format "20170323," while DateTime returns a date "3/23/2017," so I need the refresh date as a number in order to filter by "greater than."

When I attempt to convert the date to a whole number data type, it changes to (using the above date) 42817. Any tips?