How to hide a table row if date in td is older than today's date?

Question

As a Dr. Frankenstein of coding, I have managed to cobble together a table as exampled [here][1], utilising datatables and UK Date Sorting. The final piece of this puzzle is to

Answer 1

$(document).ready(function() {

    $("#table_id").dataTable({"aoColumnDefs" : [
      {"aTargets" : [2] , "sType" : "uk_date"}]});

  $('TD.date').each(function( index ) {  
    var q = new Date();
    var m = q.getMonth();
    var d = q.getDay();
    var y = q.getYear();

    var date = new Date(y,m,d);
    if(new Date($(this).text()) < date)    {

        $(this).parent().attr("style", "display: none")
    }
      });

});

and add a date class to the column that contains the date.