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HTML

<div id="st">aaaa</div>
<div id="ed"></div>

JavaScript

var end_date    = "05/12/2014"

$("#st").html(new Date())
$("#ed").html(new Date(end_date))
if(new Date() > new Date(end_date))
{   
 alert('End date should be greater than Start date');
}