[How-to] Get the year-month-day (yyyy-mm-dd) from a date field in SQLite

SQLite is the database for the Android Application.

The following SQL is an example of getting date by SQL statement.

select _id, strftime('%Y-%m-%d', create_date) c_date from TABLE1

Returned result:

Another SQL example shows how to get counts of records by date

select strftime('%Y-%m-%d', create_date), count(strftime('%Y-%m-%d', create_date) ) from TABLE1 group by strftime('%Y-%m-%d', create_date)

More reference for the date field in SQLite can be found in the official website
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html