I have seen a lot of related questions, but I cannot place my finger on this specific question:
I have a MySQL table with both a TIMESTAMP (for when the field was create
Yeah, and if you change it to timestamp , with neither DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP nor ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, it is the same as specifying both DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.
DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP