Jigal van Hemert wrote:
Maybe because dates before Jan 1, 1970 have an undefined timestamp and dates beyond 2038 cannot be used with 32-bit integers? Quite a few people were born before 1970 and sometimes one needs to store their date of birth too?
Yes, but birthdates are generally DATE, not DATETIME, unless you're doing astrology. Sebastian was talking about DATETIME versus Unix timestamp INT.
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