[pmwiki-users] (:if date:) with page variables question

[Jon Haupt]

I have created a page variable called BlogDate2 which produces the
page's creation time in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

I'm confused by how this works with (:if date:).

(:if date yesterday..tomorrow:) this works.
(:if date "-1 month"..tomorrow:) this works.
(:if date yesterday..tomorrow {*$BlogDate2}:) this works.
(:if date "-1 month"..tomorrow {*$BlogDate2}:) this doesn't work.

Any idea why this wouldn't work?

Jon Haupt