title: Check if a date is upcoming or past in MySQL
body: <p>I have two columns in a table</p>
  <ul>
  <li>event_date ( value is 09/22/2013)</li>
  <li>event_time ( value is 7:11 PM )</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Now I want to write a query which should returns row which has time and date in <em>future</em> or <em>past</em>.</p>
  <p>I wrote something  like this</p>
  <pre class="lang-sql prettyprint-override"><code>SELECT *
  FROM events e
  WHERE CONCAT(e.event_date, ' ', e.event_time) &lt;= DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%m/%d/%Y  %g:%i %a')
  </code></pre>
  <p>But it didn't work, it's just one of those things which you never know what's wrong with them</p>
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>