If it is a MySQL DATE column, it does not store values as month-day-year. In a proper RDBMS, how date values are stored is of zero concern to anyone writing queries to them. So if the column is named `date`, you can simply write
SELECT DATEDIFF( NOW(), date ) FROM tbl;
Hopefully it will help you.
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