getCollection date issue

I am a newcomer to MODX and am slowly converting my old websites. I am starting to understand xPDO objects and have used the following snippet to place events onto the correct resource. The issue I have is with the line starting where(array...

I want to choose where the event date (ev_edate) is equal to or later than today's date. (I always seem to have a problem with date formats and have spend some time over the last two weeks on this piece of code, without success). The row 'ev_edate' in my table is datetime and thinks work perfectly with a specific date in the line. Help would be greatly appreciated as I have a number of other pages that require date formatting.

I have Bob's Official Guide and have read many items in the Documentation and Forums without success.

($path = MODX_CORE_PATH . 'components/kfbev/';
$result = $modx->addPackage('kfbev',$path .
'model/','kfb_');

$evsort = 'ev_edate';
$s = $modx->newQuery('kfbev');
$s->sortby($evsort,'ASC');
$s->where(array( 'ev_edate:>=' =>'2014-01-01 10:13:03'));

$kfbevents = $modx->getCollection('kfbev',$s);
foreach($kfbevents as $kfbevent) {
$fields = $kfbevent->toArray();
$output .= $modx->getChunk('KFBEShowEvent', $fields);
}
return $output;

if ev_edate is of type datetime, this should work.

What do you get with this query?
What do you get, when you add

before the getCollection - line?
What is your xpdo-schema for your kfbev - object?

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. The snippet does work perfectly but what I am trying to do is replace the absolute date in the line below with the automatic current date.

So instead of this:
$s->where(array( 'ev_edate:>=' =>'2014-01-01 10:13:03'));

I want something like
$s->where(array( 'ev_edate:>=' =>'current date and time now perhaps using date()'));

It's the format of the date() in this line that is giving me grief.

try:



or starting at 00:00

Thank you Bruno.

That fixed the issue here. FYI Also looking at MIGX and bloX for my sites. No doubt I'll be back with issues later!