Help doing date comparison in state attribute

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I am trying to write an automation and I think I’m missing something in trying to do this comparison. Here is what I currently have:

now() >= state_attr('sensor.crew_soccer', 'date') - timedelta(hours=24)

I want the automation to trigger when it is within 24 hours and I’m guessing I have syntax wrong here and I can’t figure it out.

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In order to accurately help you, we need to know whether the attribute is a datetime object or just a string. What is returned when you paste the following into the Template Editor?

{{ state_attr('sensor.crew_soccer', 'date') - timedelta(hours=24) }}
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sorry, still new to this. I had a formatting issue. So it looks like it’s stored as a string, so I need to convert it I guess.

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 now() > strptime(state_attr('sensor.crew_soccer', 'date'),"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%MZ") - timedelta(hours=24)

results in:

TypeError: can’t compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes

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I think I got it!

 utcnow() > state_attr('sensor.crew_soccer', 'date')| as_datetime - timedelta(hours=24)