Comparing java.Util.Date SQL Date

Hi,
In my Database I have saved a list of Documents and their creation Time. The time is displayed in this format YYYY-MM-dd HH-mm-ss
In my program, I am required to get the list of documents created on a particular date(say today) and save it in a text file. In order to do so, I have compare the current date and the date of creation of all documents in my data base. I get the current Date using java.util.Date which is also displayed in the same format ( YYYY-MM-dd HH-mm-ss). only when I am comparing uisng the YYYY-MM-dd HH-mm-ss format, I am comparing time as well, which poses a problem., since i am required to compare only dates.
For the current date I can change the date format to simply YYYY-MM-dd but I cannot do the same for the creation time in the database.
how do i deal with this problem?
Any help is much appreciated .
Have a nice day

The way I see it there are three ways of doing this:

1) Use SimpleDateFormat to convert all incoming Dates to Strings in the format you want. Compare the Strings.

2) Turn each Date into a Calendar. Get the Year, Month, and Day values from the Calendar and compare them.

3) Use a third party library which makes working with Times and Dates a whole lot easier, like Joda Time