is_future()

The is_future() function takes a date argument, and determines whether
or not the date is in the future. This function was designed to allow
us to pivot verb inflections based on whether is_future() returned True
or False.

E.g.,
if is_future(available_params['on_date'][0]['label'], date) == True:
        template += "will give a speech"
else:
        template += "gave a speech"