How to compare the date part alone from a date time value

Question

I have two variables namely

date1 = Mon Nov 25 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (IST)
date2 = Mon Nov 25 2013 14:13:55 GMT+0530 (IST)

When I compare

Answer 1

The best way would be to modify the accepted answer's if statement as follows

if(d.setHours(0,0,0,0) >= today.setHours(0,0,0,0))

In this way, you can easily check for equality as well because the return type for setHours() is integer.