You could use the unix_timestamp function ... unix_timestamp(ts, <pattern>) >= unix_timestamp("2012-09-10", 'yyyy-MM-dd') ...
something on those lines Also checkout https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-udf.html#LanguageManualUDF-DateFunctions for more datetime functions in Hive. Ashish On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:07 PM, zuohua zhang <zuo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a date column in this format: > Mon Jul 16 14:05:12 PDT 2012 > > I want to select all records > 2012-09-01. > > How to do? > > Thanks! >