Date conditions
You'll find how to match today's date, weekday, or month, including which timezone applies and when a date range starts and ends.
You can limit an offer to a date range, selected weekdays, or certain months. Date conditions help you choose when it applies, with rules based on the current time.
What it checks
The Date source compares the current time with your rule. It doesn't read an answer to a date question, a contact's birthday, or the visitor's first visit.
When to use it
Use Date for a specific date or range, Week Day for selected days of the week, and Month for a seasonal rule that can apply again next year.
For dates visitors submitted, including relative day windows, see input-question answer conditions. For time since the first visit or recent browsing, see Pages and visits conditions.
Options
Date
The Date trigger starts with Between and two blank date fields.
| Operator | Fields | What matches |
|---|---|---|
| Between | Start date and end date | The current instant is at or after the start and at or before the end. |
| Equals | One date | The configured date falls within today in the visitor's local calendar. |
| Before | One date | The current instant is before the configured date. |
| After | One date | The current instant is after the configured date. |
Before and After are strict comparisons at whole-second precision. Between includes its exact boundaries at that precision.
A missing start date or an unparseable date doesn't match. With a blank end date, RightMessage substitutes the current time, so a range with a past start can still match. Supply both boundaries.
Week Day
Week Day offers Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It starts with include any of and an empty selection.
| Operator | What matches |
|---|---|
| include any of | Today is one of your selected weekdays. |
| don't include any of | Today isn't one of your selected weekdays. |
| matches any | Your configured weekday selection is nonempty. |
| doesn't match any | Your configured weekday selection is empty. |
The last two operators inspect your selection, not whether today's weekday is known. The first two filter by today's weekday.
Month
Month offers every month from January through December. It starts with include any of and an empty selection.
Its four operators are include any of, don't include any of, matches any, and doesn't match any. Inclusion compares the current month with your selected months. As with Week Day, the two presence operators inspect your configured selection, not the browser's ability to determine the month.
A month selection has no year attached, so it can match again in later years.
Examples
WorkForge (opens in a new tab) could show a seasonal offer with Month, include any of, and January and February selected.
The date-range rule below has January 1 and January 31, 2027 as its boundaries.
A range compares the saved date instants. It doesn't extend the end date to 11:59:59 p.m. automatically. A date-only end boundary can therefore end at the start of that date.
Things to know
Weekday and month come from the visitor's browser clock and timezone. Equals also uses the visitor's local day. Before, After, and Between compare the saved date instants with the current time. This editor has no project-timezone selector.
These conditions compare the current time, not stored visitor history. Whether someone matches can change when RightMessage evaluates the rule later. The condition doesn't guarantee a refresh at exactly midnight on a page left open.
The current picker has no Time trigger or separate hour-of-day rule.