# TIMESTAMP\$1LTZ
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Use the TIMESTAMP\$1LTZ data type to store complete timestamp values that include the date, the time of day, and the local time zone. 

TIMESTAMP represents values comprising values of fields `year`, `month`, `day`, `hour`, `minute`, and `second`, with the session local timezone. The `timestamp` value represents an absolute point in time.

TIMESTAMP in Spark is a user-specified alias associated with one of the TIMESTAMP\$1LTZ and TIMESTAMP\$1NTZ variations. You can set the default timestamp type as TIMESTAMP\$1LTZ (default value) or TIMESTAMP\$1NTZ via the configuration `spark.sql.timestampType`.