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There are 5 MySQL date datatypes these are:

DatatypeFormatInfo
DATETIMEYYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SSThis stores both date and time.
DATEYYYY-MM-DDThis only stores the date
TIMESTAMP(length)Depends on the length field
TIMEHH:MM:SSThis stores only the time
YEARYYYYStores only the year










10.16.Introduction
10.16.1.The basic datatypes
10.16.2.Date Datatypes
10.16.3.Numeric Types Storage
10.16.4.Numeric Types
10.16.5.ZEROFILL,UNSIGNED,SERIAL,SERIAL DEFAULT VALUE
10.16.6.Using Data Types from Other Database Engines
10.16.7.Data type mapping occurs at table creation time, after which the original type specifications are discarded.
10.16.8.Storage Requirements for Numeric Types
10.16.9.Storage Requirements for Date and Time Types
10.16.10.The format of the zero value for each type.