@Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    props.setProperty(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMNS, "TD_DATE");
    props.setProperty(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMN_TYPES, "date");
    serde.initialize(null, props, null);
  }
Test the data type DATE for Teradata binary format.
serde/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/teradata/TestTeradataBinarySerdeForDate.java