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# DATE\_CMP\_TIMESTAMPTZ function
DATE\_CMP\_TIMESTAMPTZ compares a date to a timestamp with time zone and returns `0` if the values are identical, `1` if *date* is greater chronologically and `-1` if *timestamptz* is greater.
## Syntax
```
DATE_CMP_TIMESTAMPTZ(date, timestamptz)
```
## Arguments
*date*
A column of data type `DATE` or an expression that implicitly evaluates to a `DATE` type.
*timestamptz*
A column of data type `TIMESTAMPTZ` or an expression that implicitly evaluates to a `TIMESTAMPTZ` type.
## Return type
INTEGER
## Examples
The following example compares the date `2008-06-18` to LISTTIME. Listings made before this date return `1`; listings made after this date return `-1`.
```
select listid, '2008-06-18', CAST(listtime AS timestamptz),
date_cmp_timestamptz('2008-06-18', CAST(listtime AS timestamptz))
from listing
order by 1, 2, 3, 4
limit 10;
listid | ?column? | timestamptz | date_cmp_timestamptz
--------+------------+------------------------+----------------------
1 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-01-24 06:43:29+00 | 1
2 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-03-05 12:25:29+00 | 1
3 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-11-01 07:35:33+00 | -1
4 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-05-24 01:18:37+00 | 1
5 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-05-17 02:29:11+00 | 1
6 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-08-15 02:08:13+00 | -1
7 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-11-15 09:38:15+00 | -1
8 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-11-09 05:07:30+00 | -1
9 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-09-09 08:03:36+00 | -1
10 | 2008-06-18 | 2008-06-17 09:44:54+00 | 1
(10 rows)
```