working with date please help

i am trying to write code that will tell me if one date is before another. This is the code i have writen but it will not work please help me.

if date1 > date2 then

if any of ou can please help
thanks
dave

You can use DateDiff. In this example it returns the number of days different. If it is a negative number then the second date is smaller than the first. If it is a positive number then the second date is greater than the first.

Code:

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  myNum = DateDiff("d", date1, date2)
 
  If myNum < 0 Then
    'date2 is smaller than date1
  ElseIf myNum > 0 Then
    'date2 is greater than date1
  Else
    'the dates are the same
  End If

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