This code works and returns 148 records from my DB:

$current_date = '2020-08-19';
DataTables::create(
	array(
	"dataSource"=>$report->dataStore("tbl")
	 ->filter(function($row){							
	     return ($row["Date"] == '2020-08-19');
         })
)); 

When replace the date within the filter function with $current_date, it returns zero records.

What is the right way to do this?

I'm already printing out the records with a DataTable. When a literal '2020-08-19' is used, I can see the Date column has dates in the format '2020-08-19', which is exactly how it is in my DB.

Except Koolreport's in memory storage of dates differs from how a DataTable represents it (or how it read it off the DB for that matter.) Please confirm.

Solution here applies.