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Compare two dates

JavaScript

// `a` and `b` are `Date` instances
const compare = (a, b) => a.getTime() > b.getTime()

TypeScript

const compare = (a: Date, b: Date): boolean => a.getTime() > b.getTime()

Example

compare(new Date('2020-03-30'), new Date('2020-01-01')) // true