Fairly lame question

[Stuart Felenstein]

I think this can be done, but tried a few times with
no success.  I want a column in a table that sets a
timestamp.  
Instead of passing a value from the form though is
there a way mySql would automagically stamp the
records as they are inserted ?

and as a side note - would table type make any
difference. 

4.0.20 - standard

Thank you,
Stuart