Queries not filtering by date

[EspectroRebelde]

Hi everyone! I think this may be a bug, but since I just found out about the plugin, I thought I would ask here first if anyone has had a similar error before reporting it! Here is the overall problem using the bug template:

Expected Behavior

Queries should return the tasks between, after, or before the date filtered by.

Current Behavior

With this code, I wasn't getting any tasks while having multiple ones shown with other queries that didn't have the date filter.

```tasks
due before 2021-01-01
```

To show the bug fully, here is a side-by-side image with the code used and the preview Obsidian gives:

Steps to Reproduce

After installing the plugin, removing the global filter, and restarting Obsidian twice, all the due or done commands for the queries didn't work. Every other command works, the done not done path includes X and so on, but all the tasks that involve the date query don't show up.

It didn't work from the start after downloading the plugin. It's probably a syntax error or similar, but after an hour of working on possible solutions, I still didn't get any outputs from the query.

Context (Environment)

Obsidian version: v0.12.15
Tasks version: 1.3.0
The other plugin editing the dates is "Obsidian TODO," which uses the tags to create TODO lists. After disabling it and restarting Obsidian plus removing the # from the dates, still, no data returned on the queries.

And yeah, anyone has an idea regarding this query problem?

[derthnada]

Also a new user, and I just ran into this same issue, but it appeared to be sporadic. In reality, it looks like the date filter only works if the due date is the last item on the line.
- [ ] Do this thing 📅 2021-10-14 #p1 doesn't work, but - [ ] Do this thing #p1 📅 2021-10-14 does.

[EspectroRebelde]

For me, it's still not working, and I recheck my tasks, and they all have the date as the last item of the line. Still unsure why the problem exists but also noticed any sort by due or similar request didn't affect the displayed tasks. I guess we will see if this gets fixed soon!

[schemar]

Please read the official documentation. Especially this part about dates: https://github.com/schemar/obsidian-tasks#due-dates

You have to have the calendar emoji in front of the date in order for it to be recognized as due date.

[schemar]

Note that the documentation has moved here:
https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/3_getting_started/due_dates/