title: Using dates with Cassandra
body: <p>I've just started my adventure with Cassandra database. I've managed to learn some basics but what I still can't understand is how to work with dates in Cassandra?</p>
  
  <p>So for example in MySQL we have a datetime type for a field and we can query (for example) all fields with creation date less then 2010-01-01. Furthermore we can order the result by creation date field.</p>
  
  <p>How can we achieve the same with Cassandra? How to define the corresponding Column Family and how to query (CQL) it to get the same result?</p>