How to check if the date is equal to the current one?

Question

MySQL

The date is written in varchar (2017-09-06 07:35:53). How to check only the date, that it is current?

Answer 1

SELECT CURRENT_DATE = DATE('2017-09-06 07:35:53')

Answer 2

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/date-and-t...