Answers.Body: <p>I'm not 100% sure I'm reading your question correctly, but here goes:</p>
  
  <p>I'm assuming you're getting the date as a string as a route param (maybe you shouldn't call it <code>date</code> though, as that is a function in Twig), I'll call that <code>dateTime</code> here:</p>
  
  <p><code>
  {% set dayAfter = date(datetime) | date_modify('+1 day') | date('Y-m-d') %}
  {% set entries = craft.entries.section('events').startDate(['and', '&gt;= '~datetime, '&lt; '~dayAfter]) %}
  </code></p>
  
  <p>What's happening is you get a date, then you add one day to that date, then find all entries that have <code>startDate</code> greater than or equal to the date you're looking for, <em>and</em> less than the day after, thus getting all entries for that particular date.</p>
  
  <p>This might be over engineered though, and there might be a way simpler way to do this...</p>
  
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Body: <p>Ok I want to list event entries based on the start date of those events.</p>
  
  <p>I have a route set up which provides the date in the same format as held in the start date field. But trying to compare this with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% for entry in craft.entries.section('events').startDate(date) %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to pull out only entries for the specified date fails as the date variable only holds the date portion of the startDate field i.e. 2015-10-02 and not the time segment.</p>
  
  <p>So is there some way I can format this call so that the comparison is like with like without the time segment. I have tried a few things with filters but nothing is working.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>
  
Tags: <datetime>
Title: How to compare just the date part of a dateTime field?
ThreadText: # How to compare just the date part of a dateTime field?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-03)
  
  Ok I want to list event entries based on the start date of those events.
  
  I have a route set up which provides the date in the same format as held in the start date field. But trying to compare this with:
  
  ```
  {% for entry in craft.entries.section('events').startDate(date) %}
  
  ```
  
  to pull out only entries for the specified date fails as the date variable only holds the date portion of the startDate field i.e. 2015-10-02 and not the time segment.
  
  So is there some way I can format this call so that the comparison is like with like without the time segment. I have tried a few things with filters but nothing is working.
  
  Cheers
  
  **Tags:** datetime
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-03. Score: 5 | Accepted answer
  
  I'm not 100% sure I'm reading your question correctly, but here goes:
  
  I'm assuming you're getting the date as a string as a route param (maybe you shouldn't call it `date` though, as that is a function in Twig), I'll call that `dateTime` here:
  
  `{% set dayAfter = date(datetime) | date_modify('+1 day') | date('Y-m-d') %}
  {% set entries = craft.entries.section('events').startDate(['and', '>= '~datetime, '< '~dayAfter]) %}`
  
  What's happening is you get a date, then you add one day to that date, then find all entries that have `startDate` greater than or equal to the date you're looking for, *and* less than the day after, thus getting all entries for that particular date.
  
  This might be over engineered though, and there might be a way simpler way to do this...
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks @username_1 works a treat. Although as you say does seem a little over engineered.  
  
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