FreeMarker Current Date Comparison

Question

Is it possible to do date comparisons against the current date in a freemarker template without passing the current date into the template?

Answer 1

From FreeMarker 2.3.17 on you can use the new special variable .now:

[#assign foo = .now > yesterday?datetime]

Answer 2

NO

Freemarker is a templating library, there isn't a today variable.

But you can pass a new Date() Java Object to the template.