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Date is on

Estimated reading: 2 minutes Updated August 1, 2026

Date is on passes when the date in the field falls on the same calendar day as the date you type. Unlike Date is before and Date is after, this operator ignores the time of day entirely.

When to use it

Use it when a single day matters: submissions dated on a launch day, appointments booked for a specific date, anniversaries, or a one-day promotion.

How to configure it

  1. Open AFI → Integrations and edit your integration.
  2. Switch on Conditional Logic.
  3. Pick the date field, choose Date is on, and type the day you want to match.

How it behaves

Both sides are parsed as dates and then reduced to a plain calendar day before they are compared. A field holding 2026-11-05 14:32:07 matches a rule value of 2026-11-05, and it also matches November 5 2026 or 11/05/2026. The format you type does not have to match the format the form sends.

Relative phrases work too. A rule value of today matches any submission whose date field falls on the current day, and it stays correct as the days roll on.

If either side cannot be read as a date, the rule fails and the integration does not run.

Dates are interpreted in your WordPress site’s timezone. A submission just before midnight in a different timezone belongs to whichever calendar day your site is on.

Example

A conference runs a single-day workshop on 12 March 2026. Attendees who pick that date on the booking form should go into a dedicated reminder sequence.

Set the rule to {{workshop_date}} Date is on 2026-03-12.

Notes

Because the time is discarded, Date is on is usually what you want for “same day” logic. Trying to express the same thing with Date is after plus Date is before requires you to reason about midnight boundaries, and it is easy to get wrong by an hour.

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