Sometimes it’s desirable to hide content on your website from users a specified date. With ExpressionEngine we already have built in functionality to do this with weblog/channel entries. If you want to achieve a similar effect for blocks of template code then you can simply combine the conditional and date tags as follows:

{if {current_time format="%d%m%Y"} >= "17072011"}...{/if}

Initially I thought I might need a plug-in to achieve the desired result but it was great to discover I could do just what I wanted out of the box. :)

Update: As pointed out by Philip there are some issues with this approach so tread carefully people, I’ve only tested this concept in a scenario where the current date falls within the same month/year etc.