title: Date now greater than date value given
body: <p>I am having to try to determine whether a date from a hidden field, formatted mm/dd/yyyy, is less than today. if it is, I want to let the person know that a subscription has expired. I have had this working on some occasions but it is not reliably doing it??</p>
  
  <pre><code>//this is the expiration date that is in a hidden field
  var expireDate = $("#expire").val();
  
  //here I am trying to setup a new date for today and change the output to match the date
  //format for the hidden field, i.e. mm/dd/yyyy
  var a = new Date();
  var b = a.toISOString().split("T")[0].split("-");
  var ca = b[1] + "/" + b[2] + "/" + b[0];
  
  
  //now I want to compare the 2 and if the expiration date is less than today, display a warning message                      
  if (expireDate &lt; ca) {
     $("&lt;div class=\"message-warning\"&gt;This subscription is expired&lt;/div&gt;")
      .insertAfter("#enddate");
  };
  </code></pre>