Help with filtering a query with a date as string column

Hello -- I've got a table column that contains dates as
string/text type (access db). I need to make a query of my table
that includes only the dates that match today's date (example
5-13-2008). I need two parts. One is to capture today's date, and
another to set the filter in the query.
Here's my base query
<cfquery name="someQuery" datasource="someDS">
SELECT col1, col2, dateCol, col4
FROM someTable
WHERE dateCol = "today's date"
</cfquery>
What's the best way to capture today's date? And then what's
the best way to set it to a string so I have an object to compare
with dateCol. I know #now()# will get today's date, however it
returns date + time. How can I format it as M-D-YYYY? Then, how do
I convert it to a string so I can evaluate in my query? Any help is
appreciated!

quote:
Originally posted by:
Dan Bracuk
Redesign your database and store dates as dates instead of
strings.
I would love to do this, however I couldn't figure out how to
store date and time values AS DATE to my database. My front end is
Flex with a Coldfusion backend. When a form is filled, I need it to
send the current time and the current date of submission. Using
Date(), I can obtain the current date (date + time). However it's
not easy to separate the [date] and [time] values of the Date()
result without using a dateformatter with a mask. By doing this,
I've now taken my date as DATE and converted it to date and time
both AS STRING. Well after several trial and error tries as well as
looking for any help online, I just decided to use the
dateformatter, convert date and time to string and then save each
to their own columns.
The other way of doing this is to just have one column that
holds both the date and time, and use Date() to pass the correct
data-type to my db. However, when passing Date() to my db, it only
stores the date but sets the time to 00:00:00. Now if I could find
a way to get both correct date and time (example 5-13-2008 1:31:xx
PM), I could just use a dateformatter in my front end to display
the dates as I want. Again, the problem is I need the TIME value as
well, and it keeps defaulting to 00:00:00 in access.
@paross1-- I will try what you've provided just to get this
thing working, regardless if they are strings in the db instead of
dates.
If anyone can solve my default time issue mentioned above,
that would be great too..

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