Question

I have the following defining a table:

CREATE TABLE players(playerid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL,
                     name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
                     added DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);

The CURRENT_TIMESTAMP relentlessly inserts 1970-01-01. I am loosely aware of the significance of this date and how some timestamps are a positive/negative offset from it; however, from what I’ve read elsewhere, my default timestamp should use the current time/date, as is suggests. Also, should a timestamp not include the time (from 1970 or otherwise)?

Thanks! 🙂

Answer 1

I just had an epiphany and realised I was being an idiot. I am using Java to connect to the database and was using resultSet.getDate("added"), which apparently is not suited to this purpose, and returns 1970-01-01. getString("added") confirmed my mistake, and returned exactly what I wanted to see 🙂