Answers.Body: <p>In Twig, you'll never need to double up on your curly brackets.  I.E.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ {{ }} }}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or </p>
  
  <pre><code>{% {{ }} %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Change this (which is already inside of <code>{% %}</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>event_startDateTime: '&lt;= {{ now }}',
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To use string concatenation like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>event_startDateTime: '&lt;= ' ~ now,
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And you should be set.</p>
  
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Body: <p>The following code is throwing an error for me.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set eventEntries = craft.entries.find({
      section: 'events',
      event_startDateTime: '&lt;= {{ now }}',
      limit: '4'
  }) %}
  
  {% for entry in eventEntries %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Fatal error: Call to a member function getTimestamp() on a non-object</p>
  
  <p>What I'm trying to do is pull 4 events where a date field (event_startDateTime) is before the current time.  My suspicion is that the {{ now }} variable isn't parsing inside the single quotes, but I'm not entirely sure.  Can anyone correct my code?</p>
  
Tags: <elementcriteriamodel>
Title: Problem with Pulling Event Entries
ThreadText: # Problem with Pulling Event Entries
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-06)
  
  The following code is throwing an error for me.
  
  ```
  {% set eventEntries = craft.entries.find({
      section: 'events',
      event_startDateTime: '<= {{ now }}',
      limit: '4'
  }) %}
  
  {% for entry in eventEntries %}
  
  ```
  
  Fatal error: Call to a member function getTimestamp() on a non-object
  
  What I'm trying to do is pull 4 events where a date field (event\_startDateTime) is before the current time. My suspicion is that the {{ now }} variable isn't parsing inside the single quotes, but I'm not entirely sure. Can anyone correct my code?
  
  **Tags:** elementcriteriamodel
  
  
  ---
  
  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-06. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  In Twig, you'll never need to double up on your curly brackets. I.E.
  
  ```
  {{ {{ }} }}
  
  ```
  
  or
  
  ```
  {% {{ }} %}
  
  ```
  
  Change this (which is already inside of `{% %}`:
  
  ```
  event_startDateTime: '<= {{ now }}',
  
  ```
  
  To use string concatenation like this:
  
  ```
  event_startDateTime: '<= ' ~ now,
  
  ```
  
  And you should be set.
  
  
  ---
  
  