<Initializing Date in Kotlin> I'm trying to pass a...

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Initializing Date in Kotlin
I'm trying to pass a date to a function in Kotlin. I don't want to have to type "08/30/2018" as a String and would instead prefer Date. I initially tried just 08/30/2018 but get a compiler stating an Integer was found for the input rather than Date.

var myDate = 1/1/2000
var newDate = 08/30/2018

fun setDate(value: Int){
myDate = value
}

setDate(newDate)

println(newDate) //0
println(myDate) //0
println(myDate.compareTo(newDate)) //0



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