docs: Update types-and-formats.mdx (#8382) — thank you, @morgan-at-cube!

Explicitly state that dates should be cast to timestamp.

Author: morgan-at-cube

docs/pages/reference/data-model/types-and-formats.mdx

@@ -573,10 +573,12 @@ This section describes the various types that can be assigned to a
 ### `time`
 
 In order to be able to work with time series data, Cube needs to identify
-time dimension which is a timestamp column in your database. You can define
+a time dimension which is a timestamp column in your database. You can define
 several time dimensions in a single cube.
 
-Note that type of target column should be `TIMESTAMP`. Please see
+Note that the type of the target column should be `TIMESTAMP`. 
+If your time-based column is type `DATE` or another temporal type, 
+you should cast it to a timestamp in the `sql` parameter of the dimension. Please see
 [this recipe][ref-string-time-dims] if your datetime information is stored
 as a string.
 
@@ -954,4 +956,4 @@ cubes:
   /reference/data-model/pre-aggregations#rollup
 [ref-schema-ref-calc-measures]:
   /reference/data-model/measures#calculated-measures
-[ref-drilldowns]: /guides/recipes/data-exploration/drilldowns
+[ref-drilldowns]: /guides/recipes/data-exploration/drilldowns