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How to compare (in MySQL) a DATETIME value to a TIMESTAMP value?

I'm trying to understand how to compare a DATETIME value (ostensibly inserted as GMT) and a TIMESTAMP value (automatically generated at INSERT time). As I understand it, the DATETIME is set to ...
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Compare a date and a timestamp with time zone with now() in the same query?

I have multiple database servers I'm querying with a query that compares an expiration column with now(). The problem is that one of the servers' expiration column is a timestamp with time zone, and ...
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MySQL unclearness about DataType TIMESTAMP with DefaultValue CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

In MySQL InnDB engine I created TableColumn with data type TIMESTAMP and put there as default value CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, but this value are always changed to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP when I update that by ...
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Single data type for imprecise date values, as allowed by ISO 8601

How can I store date and time values with reduced precision in a PostgreSQL type, and have them behave as date and/or time values? ISO 8601 allows date values with reduced precision. ‘1964’, ...