Isolating date part of date / time variable

Isolating date part of date / time variable

I have a date / time variable declared in a form.  I am using it's data entry from a calendar view such that both date and time info is input to the variable which is called 'sched_time'.  I want to show a grid view of today's records from the form called 'Case' and have attempted to use the criteria as below in the view script.  

show  all  rows  from  Case [sched_time == zoho.currentdate]

This does not work and no records are ever shown using this format.  I have tried to use combinations of some date functions like getdate, but apparently these only work on strings.

I need something like 

show  all  rows  from  Case [datevalue(sched_time) == zoho.currentdate]

Maybe I could convert the date/time to a string, then concatenate the month day year then use <string>.todate(string_var) but that seems quite awkward. 

BTW, I'm sure that at some point I will need to isolate the time portion of the date/time as well.

Any ideas?