Using hard-coded dates in Equations

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I would like to use hard coded dates in an equation field and am running into issues. For example, I would like to do this:

If the date is before (or equal to) December 31, 2018, i want to return a 1, otherwise i want it to check if the date is greater than (or equal to) April 20, 2019, if that is true, return a 3. If neither case is true, return a 2. Example syntax below:

{Date} <= 12/31/2018 ? 1 : ({Date} >= 04/20/2019 ? 3 : 2)

The above syntax is just returning a 3 for all cases as it's taking my date_time field and making it a 2. I've looked at the date equations but nothing seems to be useful in this case. Am i going to have to create some variables to point to the date instead of hard coding dates into the equation?

Thanks for any help in advance!

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Thanks Tim! Didn't realize there were so many logic options for dates in the conditional rules field!!!

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You can hard code the dates too. I just picked before today, today, after today, for ease in the example.

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Could you use a multiple choice field and conditional values. See these conditional rules which results in 1, 2, 3

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