Converting a date string which is before 1970 into a timestamp in MySQL

Question

Not a very good title, so my apologies.

For some reason, (I wasn\'t the person who did it, i digress) we have a table structure where the field type for a date is va

Answer 1

I have not tried the above solutions but this might in case you are not able to retrieve the date value from the MySQL database in the form of timestamp, then this operation can also be tried

SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(second,FROM_UNIXTIME(0),'1960-01-01 00:00:00');