diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx
index 4d8818b1d974..dbde25ef2b4f 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/components/ResultSet/index.tsx
@@ -278,7 +278,10 @@ export default class ResultSet extends React.PureComponent<
       dbId,
       datasetToOverwrite.datasetId,
       sql,
-      results.selected_columns.map(d => ({ column_name: d.name })),
+      results.selected_columns.map(d => ({
+        column_name: d.name,
+        is_dttm: d.is_date,
+      })),
       datasetToOverwrite.owners.map((o: DatasetOwner) => o.id),
       true,
     );
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/types.ts b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/types.ts
index b60ca8604be9..f1e088f003ee 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/types.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/SqlLab/types.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { ToastType } from 'src/components/MessageToasts/types';
 
 export type Column = {
   name: string;
+  is_date?: boolean;
 };
 
 export type QueryState =