title: Change Sqoop's Date Format in Incremental Import from SQL Server
body: <p>TL;DR - Is it possible to change the date format Sqoop uses?</p>
  
  <p>I am importing data from a SQL Server using Sqoop (version 1.4.6) and am specifying a datetime column as my --check-column.</p>
  
  <p>Sqoop is querying the database using dates in the format yyyy-MM-ddd hh:mm:ss.SSS. However, since SQL server is configured to use British dmy date format, it, counterintuitively, interprets a date beginning with a year as having the day in the second position rather than the month (wtf?!).</p>
  
  <p>E.g SELECT ... WHERE modified &lt; '2017-01-31 00:00:00.000' is interpreted as selecting the data where modified is less than the 1st day of the 31st month 2017 which obviously throws an error.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to change the date format Sqoop uses?</p>