Need help to compare date time with a sensor containing date time in binary_sensor

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The EPIC Time Conversion and Manipulation Thread!

After seeing many threads on the forum asking for help with time conversions and calculations using time and realizing I generally had no real understanding of how time worked in HA I decided to dig in and try to figure it out. After over a week of internet and forum searches I think I’ve now got a lot of it figured out. I’m sure there is more that I don’t have here because sometimes “you don’t know what you don’t know”. So, since I didn’t know this stuff and because of the number of other pos…

Have you checked that “as_timestamp” for your sensor actually returns a valid unix timestamp in the template editor?

I think it should but since you having troubles it is easy enough to check.