Invalid default value for 'create_date' timestamp field

Question

I have the following sql create statement

mysql> CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `erp`.`je_menus` (
    ->   `id` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
    -&g         


        

Answer 1

TIMESTAMP has a range of '1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-19 03:14:07' UTC (see doc). The default value must be within that range.

Other odd, related, behavior:

CREATE TABLE tbl1 (
    ts TIMESTAMP);  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

CREATE TABLE tbl2 (
    ts TIMESTAMP,
    ts2 TIMESTAMP);
ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for 'ts2'

CREATE TABLE tbl3 (
    ts TIMESTAMP,
    ts2 TIMESTAMP DEFAULT '1970-01-01 00:00:01');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

Side note, if you want to insert NULLS:

CREATE TABLE tbl4 (
    ts TIMESTAMP NULL DEFAULT NULL);