which operator to use to compare date column with a date value?

[fairy]

Hi

I an trying to do the following while Adding a custom column. col1 and col2 are of date type

if [col1] < #date(2016,7,6) then "Grey"

else if ([col2] > #date(2016,7,6) and [col3] = "Yellow") then "Grey"

else [col3]

I get error saying cannot apply operator < to type Date. How do I compare dates in here?

[arify]

When I run "#date(2011,1,1) < #date(2015,1,1)" I get true, so that's not the issue.

What's the exact error message? Are you sure all of the column values are dates?

Are you getting something like this? We cannot apply operator < to types Date and DateTime.

Thanks

[fairy]

Yes that right. thats exactly the error message I get. how do I resolve this?

The workaround I did was use DAX in power BI desktop instead of M in Edit query. However, I still want the M to work

[arify · Accepted solution]

You can change

#date(2016,7,6) 

to

#datetime(2016,7,6,0,0,0) 

and it should work 🙂