What is the best field to store the birthday?

Question

I have to store in my mysql database, the users\'s birthday ( like 12-11-1990 ).

What field type do I have to use to store it ?

Answer 1

"DATE" should be good.

The DATE type is used for values with a date part but no time part. MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. The supported range is '1000-01-01' to '9999-12-31'.

More details : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/datetime.html