DATE -- A simple date in YYYY-MM–DD format, with a supported range from ‘1000-01-01’ to ‘9999-12-31’.

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DATETIME(fsp) -- A date time in YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss format, with a supported range from ‘1000-01-01 00:00:00’ to ‘9999-12-31 23:59:59’. By adding DEFAULT and ON UPDATE to the column definition, it automatically sets to the current date/time.

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TIMESTAMP(fsp) -- A Unix Timestamp, which is a value relative to the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (‘1970-01-01 00:00:00’ UTC). This has a supported range from ‘1970-01-01 00:00:01’ UTC to ‘2038-01-09 03:14:07’ UTC.

By adding DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON UPDATE CURRENT TIMESTAMP to the column definition, it automatically sets to current date/time.

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TIME(fsp) -- A time in hh:mm:ss format, with a supported range from ‘-838:59:59’ to ‘838:59:59’.

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YEAR -- A year, with a supported range of ‘1901’ to ‘2155’.

DATE - format YYYY-MM-DD

DATETIME - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS

TIMESTAMP - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS

YEAR - format YYYY or YY