Timer and date calculations in rules -- need help

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime
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Not a bug.

DateTime is a complicated type and complicated types rarely work with ==. Try

if(dt1.equals(dt2))

It’s a long explanation which I won’t go into here. Suffice to say it is what many consider to be a design flaw in Java and therefore a design flaw inherited by the Rules DSL which runs on Java.

For a rule of thumb, you can only use == for:

  • Number
  • BigDecimal
  • primitives
  • Strings
  • Boolean
  • Enums (e.g ON, OFF, OPEN, CLOSED)

All other types such as DateTime must either be converted to one of the above to use == or you must use the .equals method instead.

As to the logInfo statement, @watou provided a way to call logInfo that has the smarts to figure out how to extract the String representation of dt1 and dt2.

I suspect the following would have worked as well:

logInfo("TestNow", dt1.toString)