title: PHP date time greater than today
body: <p>please help what's wrong with my code? It always returns that today's date is greater than '01/02/2016' wherein 2016 is greater than in 2015.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $date_now = date("m/d/Y");
  
  $date = date_create("01/02/2016");
  $date_convert = date_format($date, "m/d/Y");
  
  if ($date_now &gt; $date_convert) {
      echo 'greater than';
  } else {
      echo 'Less than';
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>P.S: 01/02/2016 is coming from the database.</p>