Azure: Compare dates in Data factory

Question

Data factory doesn't have a built-in date difference function. I want to compare lastModified date and utcnow in if condition activity. How can I achieve it?

@greaterOrEquals(activity('Get Metadata1').output.lastModified, '2015-03-15T13:27:36Z')

Answer 1

You can use the ticks function to convert it to integer. Logic Apps function reference for Ticks

The ADF UI may show a warning about it not being a recognized function, but ADF is actually using logic app expressions so it will succeed if you debug or trigger the pipeline.