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 ,
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Answer 1

I was able to resolve this issue on OS X by installing MySQL from Homebrew

brew install mysql

by adding the following to /usr/local/etc/my.cnf

sql_mode=ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

and restarting MySQL

brew tap homebrew/services
brew services restart mysql

Answer 2

I try to set type of column as 'timestamp' and it works for me.

Answer 3

If you generated the script from the MySQL workbench.

The following line is generated

SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL,ALLOW_INVALID_DATES';

Remove TRADITIONAL from the SQL_MODE, and then the script should work fine

Else, you could set the SQL_MODE as Allow Invalid Dates

SET SQL_MODE='ALLOW_INVALID_DATES';

Answer 4

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);