What is the name of the default date format used by MySQL?

Question

MySQL by default displays columns of type DATETIME using the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss . Does this format have a name, for example, RFC 1123 format? How common is this format with database providers?

An example of a date value displayed in this format would be: 2013-05-13 12:58:26

Answer 1

It is commonly known as ISO 8601 .