Google Sheets Scripts, IF date of a cell - if-statement

Question

I ve been getting some issues trying to use IF statement using items on the sheets as answers, mostly i been trying either using as firt statement a string directly or using another cell of the sheets with the statement comparing to the one i ve been trying to detect with out any results. Mostly my objective would be to, with a daly trigger, use an IF statement to detect every day if the date of today is the same as a date marked on a cell, my only current solution is and only thing is to make it detect if a cell is empty or not, so i just been using google Formulas that do the detect of the date, and if True make it empty, and if not make something appear
Here are some of the tests I ve been trying
Test 1:
var Sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("SheetName");
else if (Sheet.getRange(1, 1).getValue() == "2/2/2020"){}
(cell A1=2/2/2020)
Test 2:
var Sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("SheetName");
else if (Sheet.getRange(1, 1).getValue() == Sheet.getRange(1, 2).getValue()){}
(cell A1=2/2/2020)
(cell B1=2/2/2020)

Answer 1

Here are two solutions depending on what you are trying to accomplish.
This first one gets the values, formats them to a date format, and then compares them
function myFunction() {
var tz = Session.getScriptTimeZone();
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName('SheetName');
var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
var aVal = Utilities.formatDate(data[0][0],tz,'MM/dd/YYYY');
var bVal = Utilities.formatDate(data[0][1],tz,'MM/dd/YYYY');
Logger.log([aVal,bVal])
if(aVal == bVal) {
//do something
}
}
This second section gets the display values and compares them. The first solution compares the date values while this second solution compares the dates as a string. Good luck!
function myFunction1() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName('SheetName');
var data = sheet.getDataRange().getDisplayValues();
var aVal = data[0][0]
var bVal = data[0][1]
Logger.log([aVal,bVal])
if(aVal == bVal) {
//do something
}
}