I have a table with dates that all happened in the month November. I wrote this query
select id,numbers_from,created_date,amount_numbers,SMS_text from Tes
Date format is yyyy-mm-dd. So the above query is looking for records older than 12Apr2013
Suggest you do a quick check by setting the date string to '2013-04-30', if no sql error, date format is confirmed to yyyy-mm-dd.