YEAR()

Description

The YEAR() or TOYEAR() function returns the year part for a given date (a number from 1000 to 9999).

Syntax

> YEAR(date)
> TOYEAR(date)

Arguments

Arguments	Description
date	Required. The date/datetime to extract the year from

Examples

drop table if exists t1;
create table t1(a date, b datetime);
insert into t1 values('20211223','2021-10-22 09:23:23');
insert into t1 values('2021-12-23','2021-10-22 00:23:23');

mysql> select year(a) from t1;
+---------+
| year(a) |
+---------+
|    2021 |
|    2021 |
+---------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t3;
CREATE TABLE t3(c1 DATE NOT NULL);
INSERT INTO t3 VALUES('2000-01-01');
INSERT INTO t3 VALUES('1999-12-31');
INSERT INTO t3 VALUES('2000-01-01');
INSERT INTO t3 VALUES('2006-12-25');
INSERT INTO t3 VALUES('2008-02-29');
mysql> SELECT YEAR(c1) FROM t3;
+----------+
| year(c1) |
+----------+
|     2000 |
|     1999 |
|     2000 |
|     2006 |
|     2008 |
+----------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Constraints

The date type supports only yyyy-mm-dd and yyyymmdd for now.