Error while inserting date - Incorrect date value:

Question

I have a column called today and the type is DATE.

When I try to add the date in the format \'07-25-2012\' I get the following

Answer 1

You need to convert the date to YYYY-MM-DD in order to insert it as a MySQL date using the default configuration.

One way to do that is STR_TO_DATE():

insert into your_table (...)
values (...,str_to_date('07-25-2012','%m-%d-%Y'),...);