Need to get records from MySQL database by date only from a datetime field

Question

This seems rather simple but it has been giving me a headache. I have a column in my events table that is called \'date_time\' and it\'s type is datetime.

I need to writ

Answer 1

select * from table WHERE date(date_time) = '2009-03-27' works for me

if you have an unix timestamp you could also do

select * from table WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date_time) = your_timestamp