Question

I have a date_time field in mysql in the following format:

date_time
-----------------
Wed Nov 08 2012 16:22:06 GMT 0 

How do i get the three days data from the current date.

Answer 1

I bet that the column Date_Time‘s data type is varchar, and if that’s the case, you should convert it to valid date using STR_TO_DATE, example,

SELECT STR_TO_DATE(date_time, '%a %b %d %Y %H:%i:%s')
FROM tableName
WHERE   DATE(STR_TO_DATE(date_time, '%a %b %d %Y %H:%i:%s')) >=
        DATE(DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 3 DAY))

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SOURCES

• DATE()
• STR_TO_DATE()
• DATE formats
• DATE_ADD()
• CURDATE()