MySQL Incorrect datetime value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

Question

I\'ve recently taken over an old project that was created 10 years ago. It uses MySQL 5.1.

Among other things, I need to change the default character set from latin1

Answer 1

I have this error as well after upgrading MySQL from 5.6 to 5.7

I figured out that the best solution for me was to combine some of the solutions here and make something of it that worked with the minimum of input.

I use MyPHPAdmin for the simplicity of sending the queries through the interface because then I can check the structure and all that easily. You might use ssh directly or some other interface. The method should be similar or same anyway.

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First check out the actual error when trying to repair the db:

joomla.jos_menu Note : TIME/TIMESTAMP/DATETIME columns of old format have been upgraded to the new format.

Warning : Incorrect datetime value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00' for column 'checked_out_time' at row 1

Error : Invalid default value for 'checked_out_time'

status : Operation failed

This tells me the column checked_out_time in the table jos_menu needs to have all bad dates fixed as well as the "default" changed.

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2.

I run the SQL query based on the info in the error message:

UPDATE jos_menu SET checked_out_time = '1970-01-01 08:00:00' WHERE checked_out_time = 0

If you get an error you can use the below query instead that seems to always work:

UPDATE jos_menu SET checked_out_time = '1970-01-01 08:00:00' WHERE CAST(checked_out_time AS CHAR(20)) = '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

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Then once that is done I run the second SQL query:

ALTER TABLE `jos_menu` CHANGE `checked_out_time` `checked_out_time` DATETIME NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

Or in the case it is a date that has to be NULL

ALTER TABLE `jos_menu` CHANGE `checked_out_time` `checked_out_time` DATETIME NULL DEFAULT NULL;

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If I run repair database now I get:

joomla.jos_menu OK

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Works just fine :)