title: How to query a date property in Realm?
body: <p>I have a Realm database with an object "Events" with a property name "occasion" of type string, a property name "venue" of type string and the other one is "date" of type Date(). 
  My question is how do we query the occasions which have a date the same as today (current day). I have tried this code to retrieve the occasions using the date filter and it does work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>let date = Date()
  let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
  // dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"
  dateFormatter.dateFormat = "d MMM yyyy"
  let stringDate = dateFormatter.string(from: date)        
  
  todayEvent = realm.objects(Events.self).filter("date = '\(stringDate)'").sorted(byKeyPath: "venue", ascending: true)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The date in the Realm database shows a date in this format "17 Jan 2019 at 12:00:00 AM" even when the date was saved in the format of dd/MM/yyyy.   I've tried changing the date format but still, it won't work. Or do I need to set a format for the date property when I declare it in the first place? If so how do I do this in a Realm class object? I've tried but it gave an error. I'm stuck here now. Please help</p>
  
  <p>This is how I saved the data to Realm database :</p>
  
  <pre><code>@IBAction func addNewEventButtonPressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
  
  
  
      let newDataEntry = Events()
  
      newDataEntry.occasion = occasionTextFile.text!
  
  
      let dateString =  dateTextField.text!
      let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
      dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"
      let dateFromString = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString)
  
      newDataEntry.date = dateFromString!
  
      do {
          try realm.write {
              realm.add(newDataEntry)
          }
      } catch {
          print("Error saving data \(error)")
      }
  
  
  }
  
  </code></pre>