Taking out IF's and returning a boolean expression

Question

I thought a better way to implement this later method might be to remove the IF's and just return a boolean expression true or false if one date object is later than another date object. I almost have it correct but one case is still not outputting correctly.
Heres the return statement:
return ((year > otherDate.year)||(year==otherDate.year)&&(month > otherDate.month)&&
                    (day > otherDate.day));

Answer 1

someone told you that the code looked right? humm... don't look right to me.
basically if the years are different you are done and know the answer but if the years are the same you must look to the month
So why don't you have exactly the same situation to deal with the case where you only look at the day if the months are equal? You need an extra set of parens, and another || condition and a term involving == months.
Nope, your code just mixes together the code for checking days and checking months.
You CAN do this all in a single boolean expression, but it is nested two levels deep and too long to fit on a line. And you got it wrong. (this is a hint that the person reading the code will also not be sure that the code is correct)
You have done no one a favor by removing the IFs and using a single complicated boolean expression.