Collection Filtering to current date only

Hey there SiteJet community!
I’ve been trying to figure out how to filter collection items to today’s date only. I’m only able to use !#filter[columns.date] = gt/lt: now. When using just “now” I get an empty result. It almost looks like the function takes time into account because to get the collection item with today’s date I have to use gt: now. I thought about limiting the amount but unfortunately there are different amounts of the collection items for any given date.
Please, advise.