DATETIME

Year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds with dates from 1000 to 9999

See also: Data Types in 10.5 ES, in 10.5 CS, in 10.4 ES, in 10.4 CS, in 10.3 ES, in 10.3 CS, in 10.2 ES, and in 10.2 CS

DETAILS

CHANGE HISTORY

Release Series

History

10.5 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.3-1.

10.5 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.5.0.

10.4 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4.6-1.

10.4 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.4.0.

10.3 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.3.16-1.

10.3 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.3.0.

10.2 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.25-1.

10.2 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.2.0.

EXAMPLES

DATETIME Format

CREATE TABLE datetime_formats_example (
  description varchar(30),
  example DATETIME(6)
);

-- The time zone has no effect on the values
SET @@time_zone = '+00:00';

INSERT INTO datetime_formats_example VALUES
  ('Date without time', '2019-12-30'),
  ('Full year', '2019-12-30 00:00:00'),
  ('Short year', '19-12-30 00:00:00.000'),
  ('Pipe delimiters', '19|2|3 19|00|00.123456'),
  ('Forward slash delimiter', '19/12/30 00/00/00.0');

SET @@time_zone = '-07:00';

INSERT INTO datetime_formats_example VALUES
  ('Asterisk delimiter', '19*12*30 8*35*00'),
  ('Comma delimiter', '19,2,3 12,34,56.123');

The resulting data would look like this:

SELECT * FROM datetime_formats_example;

+-------------------------+----------------------------+
| description             | example                    |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+
| Date without time       | 2019-12-30 00:00:00.000000 |
| Full year               | 2019-12-30 00:00:00.000000 |
| Short year              | 2019-12-30 00:00:00.000000 |
| Pipe delimiters         | 2019-02-03 19:00:00.123456 |
| Forward slash delimiter | 2019-12-30 00:00:00.000000 |
| Asterisk delimiter      | 2019-12-30 08:35:00.000000 |
| Comma delimiter         | 2019-02-03 12:34:56.123000 |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+

The default microsecond precision when unspecified is 0, and you can use that in a cast in order to trim off stored microseconds:

SELECT description, CONVERT(example, DATETIME) AS example
  FROM datetime_formats_example;

+-------------------------+---------------------+
| description             | example             |
+-------------------------+---------------------+
| Date without time       | 2019-12-30 00:00:00 |
| Full year               | 2019-12-30 00:00:00 |
| Short year              | 2019-12-30 00:00:00 |
| Pipe delimiters         | 2019-02-03 19:00:00 |
| Forward slash delimiter | 2019-12-30 00:00:00 |
| Asterisk delimiter      | 2019-12-30 08:35:00 |
| Comma delimiter         | 2019-02-03 12:34:56 |
+-------------------------+---------------------+

EXTERNAL REFERENCES