Question

I have three *date fields in a table defined as VARCHAR(45) with a default value of ’00-00-0000′. Each of the fields needs the default value of the current system time when a record is created.

I have changed one of the fields from VARCHAR(45) to TIMESTAMP with default of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, which works great. I think I can only have a single field with Datatype TIMESTAMP per table.

How do I handle the other 2 fields in the tables? I would like to *CURRENT_TIMESTAMP them too.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use the NOW() function:

INSERT INTO yourtable (field1, field2) VALUES ('blahblah', now());