Basic if/else statements

[Exupnotera]

Hi can you tell me what is wrong here. I know that this is basic stuff but I am a beginner. I wrote this code :

let greeting;
let periodOfTheDay = "afternoon";
if (periodOfTheDay = "morning") {greeting = "Good Morning";
}
else if (periodOfTheDay = "afternoon") {greeting = "Good Afternoon" ;
}
else if (periodOfTheDay = "evening") {greeting = "Good Evening" ;
}
else {greeting = "Hello There";
}
console.log (greeting);

Now, no matter how I name my period of the day, it always says Good Morning, when I run the project…Can you help me out on what’s wrong?

[ILM]

Are you sure that assignments and comparisons are done in the same way?

@Exupnotera

let periodOfTheDay = "afternoon";
if (periodOfTheDay = "morning") 

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