Moment JS - check if a date is today or in the future

I am trying to use momentjs to check if a given date is today or in the future.

This is what I have so far:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

var SpecialToDate = '31/01/2014'; // DD/MM/YYYY

var SpecialTo = moment(SpecialToDate, "DD/MM/YYYY");
if (moment().diff(SpecialTo) > 0) {
    alert('date is today or in future');
} else {
    alert('date is in the past');
}

</script>

The code is evaluating my date (31st of Jan 2014) as a date in past.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Solution 1:

You can use the isSame function:

var iscurrentDate = startTime.isSame(new Date(), "day");
if(iscurrentDate) {

}

Solution 2:

After reading the documentation: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/difference/, you have to consider the diff function like a minus operator.

                   // today < future (31/01/2014)
today.diff(future) // today - future < 0
future.diff(today) // future - today > 0

Therefore, you have to reverse your condition.

If you want to check that all is fine, you can add an extra parameter to the function:

moment().diff(SpecialTo, 'days') // -8 (days)