Testing for a date range in a document template

We need to display the date in numbers that represent the date in a unique way by using the date mask ‘yyyyMMdd’. This will display the date as a series of digits for year month and finally day, without any breaks. This is a number that the conditional field will view as a whole.

For example:

{IF {MERGEFIELD Date_dt \@ "yyyyMMdd"} > 20160522 "True" "False" }