Where_exp issue with date formats

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I am building out a new Jekyll site. I have some pages where I want to show the latest posts and others where I want to show future posts.

In the _config.yml file, I set:

unpublished: true

I have a GitHub action that builds my site at 12:30 am each day. That means “today” will always be the latest date since the latest Jekyll build.

For the page that only displays the latest posts (not future-dated), I wrote this code:

{%- assign todays-date = 'now' | date: '%s' -%}
{%- assign posts = site.posts | where_exp: 'post', 'post.date <= todays-date' | date: '%s' -%}
{%- for post in posts -%}
    <p>Title: {{post.title}}
{%- endfor -%}

The where_exp fails with the following error:

Error: Liquid error (line 10): comparison of Time with String failed

I believe that I am properly using the date format for today’s date and can assume that the post date is a string.

How can I (a) convert the string within an where_exp or (b) easily list out all the posts less than or equal to today’s date?

Thanks!

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Possibly you could use site.time to compare with post.date? Both should be Time type.

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post.date is returning as a string, which is why I’m struggling with this.

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@chuckhoupt Sorry, I mis-read your comment and went back to it and you are correct! That solution worked. For reference, here is my new code:

    {%- assign posts = site.posts | where_exp: 'post', 'post.date <= site.time' -%}

Thanks again!

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